Purchas blasted the “filthy sodomits, sleepers, ignorant, beast, disciples of Cham… to whom the blacke darknesse is reserved for ever.” These were the ideas about African people circulating throughout England and the English colonies as African people were being hauled into Britannia on slave ships.13
The existing rhetoric around a historical timeframe is important for properly framing the historical choices as cultural and civic purpose driven events, rather than only believing it to be "some mean hateful people did some mean disgraceful things".
