The Golden Age, “Bible Questions and Answers”
“Question: Is there anything in the Bible that reveals the origin of the Negro? Answer: It is generally believed that the curse which Noah pronounced upon Canaan was the origin of the Black race. Certain it is that when Noah said, "Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren," he pictured the future of the Colored race. They have been and are a race of servants, but now in the dawn of the twentieth century, we are all coming to see this matter of service in its true light and to find that the only real joy in life is in serving others; not bossing them. There is no servant in the world as good as a good Colored servant, and the joy that he gets from rendering faithful service is one of the purest joys there is in the world.”
The item is the second of two answers in the magazine’s unsigned "Bible Questions and Answers" department, immediately below an answer about James 5:14 and immediately above the children’s serial, which begins on the next page. It carries no by-line and no qualification.
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Note de provenance et de vérification for The Golden Age, Bible Questions and Answers
Note sur la fiabilité. Read page by page from the item’s djvu.xml on 19 September 2026 and re-checked independently. The passage stands on the leaf whose own printed folio reads “702”; the leaves mapped to pages 699 and 701 carry the running head “JULY 24, 1929”, and page 703 begins “The Children’s Own Radio Story”. Date, page and wording all confirmed against the scan’s text, and the commonly cited page 702 is correct. The issue’s masthead block reads “Published every other Wednesday at 117 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. … by WOODWORTH, KNORR & MARTIN”.
Provenance de la numérisation. Internet Archive item “Golden Age 1929”, the bound volume for that year. Printed page numbers taken from the item's page_numbers.json joined to the djvu.xml leaves and checked against the running heads “JULY 24, 1929” on the adjacent pages.
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Notes. The item carries no by-line and no qualification. It stands between an answer about James 5:14 and the children’s serial that begins on the next page.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-race-ga-1929-0724-origin-of-negro