I was raised in Utah’s predominant church and taught to believe that a black skin was the curse of Cain. This is, of course, biblical nonsense, but seeing what we white guys have done to darker ...

Chapter headings in the online version of the Book of Mormon have been changed by LDS Church officials, eliminating vestiges of racist theology that linked dark skin to spiritual accursedness ...

Some Latter-day Saints still cling to outdated theories, for instance, saying that “dark skin is part of the curse of Cain” or that Black people were “less valiant in the preexistence.” ...

As Bowman writes, “It is true that the single most frequent use of the word Cain in the legends and folk doctrine has been in association with the concept of a “curse” of dark skin ...

Goldenberg's final chapters painstakingly trace the historical trajectories for "the curse of Ham ... "mark" that God put on Cain after he murdered Abel was black skin.The linguistic discussions ...

Those who accepted this view believed that God’s “curse” on Cain was the mark of a dark skin. Black servitude was sometimes viewed as a second curse placed upon Noah’s grandson Canaan as a ...