Nobility justified rule through blood myths of Trojan descent and Ham’s curse

Evidence

In the Middle Ages and later, the nobility, as a rule, considered themselves of better blood than the common people, whom they utterly despised. The peasants were supposed to be descended from Ham, who, for lack of filial piety, was known to have been condemned by Noah to slavery. The knightly classes of many lands, on the other hand, believed themselves to be the descendants of the Trojan heroes, who after the fall of Troy were said to have settled in England, France and Germany. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 187

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: The Ham/Noah curse lineage prefigures the racialization of Africans that the Black radical tradition opposes — proto-racial ideology within Europe itself.

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