And how could white people definitively trace their lineage to that of Shem or Japheth? One abolitionist challenged proslavery advocates by asking, “Where is the sentence [of Scripture] in which God ever appointed you, the Anglo-Saxon race [over another people], you, the mixture of all races under heaven, you, who can not tell whether the blood of S[h]em, Ham, or Japheth mingles in your veins”?
