Pro-slavery theology classified Black people as pre-Adamite creatures rather than humans

Evidence

Adam had driven away the first White criminal, his son Cain, who was “no longer the fit associate of those who were created to exercise dominion over the earth,” Davis lectured the senators. Cain had found in the “land of Nod those to whom his crime had degraded him to an equality.” Apparently, Blacks had lived in the Land of Nod among the “living creatures” God had created before humans. Blacks were later taken on Noah’s ark with other animals. Their overseer: Ham. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 555

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• XREF: connects to: Evangelicals frame abortion as the slavery of their generation — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 248; Christian nationalism originated in proslavery theology of the American slave republic. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 450