โIn early 1861, as the United States moved toward civil war, a respected rabbi in New York shocked many Americans when he opened the Bible and argued that slavery was allowed by God.
In a sermon that quickly spread across the country, Morris Jacob Raphall used scripture, including the story known as the Curse of Ham, to defend the enslavement of Africans and claim that slavery had biblical approval.โ
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