The Bible contains many references to slavery, which was a common practice in antiquity. In the course of human history, slavery was a typical feature of civilization, predated written records, and ex
11th-century manuscript of the Hebrew Bible with Targum, Exodus 12:25–31
The Franks Casket is an 8th-century Anglo-Saxon whalebone casket, the back of which depicts the enslavement of the Jewish people at the lower right.
Tapestry depicting Rachel, Dan and Bilhah. Jacob was Rachel's husband, and Bilhah was Rachel's handmaid; Rachel gives Bilhah to her husband and he has two sons by Bilhah: Dan and Naphtali.
In the Book of Genesis, the curse of Ham is described as a curse which was imposed upon Ham's son Canaan by the patriarch Noah. It occurs in the context of Noah's drunkenness and it is provoked by a s
Noah damning Ham, a 19th-century painting by Ivan Stepanovitch Ksenofontov [ru]
Noah curses Ham by Gustave Doré
A Redenção de Cam (Ham's Redemption), by Galician-Brazilian painter Modesto Brocos, 1895, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes. The painting depicts a black grandmother, mulatta mother, white father and their quadroon child, hence three generations of racial hypergamy through whitening.