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The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Vol. II

Note 69 — GOMES EANNES DE AZURARA; (continued 6)

C. Raymond (Charles Raymond) Beazley translation

(p. 54). Curse ... of Cain.—For "Curse of Ham." Cf. Genesis ix, 25. "Cursed be Canaan: a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." For this mediæval theory, used sometimes in justification of an African slave-trade, we may compare the language of Barros, quoted in note 81.

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