Noah gets drunk. Then he curses Ham.

Noah gets drunk. Then he curses Ham.

In The Curse of Ham, scholar David M. Goldenberg argues that “the single greatest justification for Black slavery for more than a thousand years” came from the pages of the Bible itself. Strikingly, he’s not thinking of New Testament passages that command enslaved people to obey their masters. Nor does he talk about allowances for slavery buried deep in biblical law. What Goldenberg has in mind is the Bible’s last story about Noah.