at black presence in the region of his familys origin certainly means that one must at least entertain that possibility. So it would be reasonable to believe that the great patriarch himself, the father of the Hebrew people, may have had some black blood in him. Regardless of the presence of Negro blood in Abrahams lineage it is certainly clear that he had much contact with dark skinned people in the time that he and Sarah spent in Egypt and Canaan. Both of these areas were settled by the descendants of Ham, and were inhabited most largely by dark skinned people. Abraham and Sarah took an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar when they headed to Canaan, out of Egypt. It was later through the Egyptian, Hagar, that Abraham bore his first son Ishmael. Because Ishmael was born outside Gods covenant with Abraham, he and his mother were eventually sent away, but they settled in the region just east of Egypt and it is generally believed that he took an Egyptian wife and fathered the Arab race.In Egypt and the ExodusEgypt was a land of people of all colors, but it has become more and more apparent in recent scholarship that the great nation of Egypt has been more a derivative of the African nations descendent of Cush than of any middle eastern peoples. In addition to this, although most Egyptians were not as dark skinned as their Ethiopian neighbors to the south, the vast majority of Egyptians had enough black blood in them that they would certainly have been considered Negroes by most any definition used today. This fact is only reinforced by the observation that the Psalms repeatedly poetically refer to Egypt as "the land of Ham" (Ps. 78:51, 105:23, 106:22). It must be remembered also that the Hebrew people lived in slavery in Egypt for over four hundred years. Generation after generation of Hebrew was born, lived, died and was buried in the land of the Egyptian. During this extensive time period there is indication of at least a handfu...
