<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Richard A. Morrisey was a first-rate African-American biblical scholar-a valedictorian of Livingston College and a Doctor of Divinity, president of the Greeneville College, and the pastor of a number of churches in the American South and in Pennsylvania.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Morrisey published "Bible History of the Negro," with the hope of inspiring a greater desire to read the Bible" which he describes as giving "the Negro a place among the foremost races of the world, in wealth, in education, in honor and in religion-a history to which every member of the race may point with great pride and profound gratitude to Almighty God today; for the best way to judge the future of any people is by the past."</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Morrisey's book of unusual interest importance brings together brings together all the references to the black race in the Bible, covering:</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">•HAM,</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">•BATHSHEBA, THE QUEEN OF SHEBA,</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">•THE WIDOW OF ZAREPHATH,</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">•"WISE MEN FROM THE EAST,"</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">•GENEALOGY OF CHRIST,</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">•ONE OF THE TWELVE DISCIPLES,</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">•SIMON THE CYRENIAN,</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">•MEMBERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH,</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">•NIMROD FOUNDER OF THE BABYLONIAN EMPIRE,</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">•MELCHIZEDEK,</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">•HAGAR AND ISHMAEL,</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">•RAHAB,</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">•WORKMEN OF THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON,</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">•PHILIP AND THE ETHIOPIAN,</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">•CANDACE, QUEEN OF ETHIOPIA.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">In debunking Noah's curse of Ham as a justification for slavery, Morrisey writes that Noah "no doubt was angry at the time and spoke as one in such a temper in those times naturally would speak. Again, God had already blessed the descendants of Ham before Noah made his attempt to curse them; and God had placed his blessings upon them and had not withdrawn it: Noah had no power to revoke whatever God had done, however great his desire to pronounce a curse." </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">This book called "Bible History of the Negro Race" is indeed of unusual interest and importance. It may be rightly termed a brief history of some of the world's most illustrious men and women.</span></p>