hought among Europeans back as far as the 12th century, and possibly further as Cains descendants are depicted as black skinned in the tale of Beowulf. However, this theory has only been made doctrine in the Mormon church. This theory is closely tied to the story of Ham, by suggesting that Ham took a descendant of Cain as his wife, thereby producing dark skinned offspring in Cush and Canaan. Still others theorize that the table of nations shown in Genesis and 1 Corinthians is a list of nations that is only inclusive of the nations within the scope of knowledge of the author, and in fact all of the races listed there are Caucasoid races. Among those excluded from this list would be the Indians, Chinese, Mongolians, Malaysians, and the Negroes. The theory suggests that there were other races of independent lineage that were unknown to the author at the time of the writings. It seems that this would be strongly discredited by the established ideal that the great flood was intended to wipe all people from the Earth, save Noahs family. It would thereby be assumed that all races of the Earth are descendant of Noah. Whatever the explanation for the origin of dark skinned races, Negro people clearly have been descendant of Noahs son Ham, and it is told in Genesis that Hams offspring were those who settled and built such great ancient cities as Babylon, Nineveh, Sodom, and Gomorrah.In the Patriarchal PeriodAccording to Genesis 11:31 Abraham, then Abram, was born and raised in the city of Ur of the Chaldeans, whose inhabitants included many dark skinned people descendent most likely from Babylonian settlers. Included among these people were the Sumarian people who referred to themselves as the "black headed ones," indicative of skin color not only black hair. Abram took his wife Sarai while still living in Ur. Granted there is no explicit indication that either Abraham or his wife was born into a family with Negro heritage, but the gre...
