"The Scarlet Letter's" Dark Secret: Who was the 'Black Man?'

This episode is HEAVY. We’ll dive into The Scarlet Letter, institutionalized racism, and its origins. We get into the origin of how the color “black” became incorrectly synonymous with “evil.” The blog can be found here.The References are below:[1] Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (New York, NY: Penguin Classics, December 1, 2015), 172.[2] Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1.[3] E. Randolph; O’Brien Richards, Brandon J., Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible (IVP Books, 2012), 59-61.[4] James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1988).[5] E. A. Wallis Budge, The Book of the Cave of Treasures: A History of the Patriarchs and the Kings Their Successors from the Creation to the Crucifixion of Christ (London, England: The Religious Tract Society, 1927), The Vineyard of Noah. https://sacred-texts.com/chr/bct/bct00.htm.[6] Codex Gigas, (National Library of Sweden, c. 1229). https://lccn.loc.gov/2021667604.If you’d like to see more episodes like this, please let me know by commenting, subscribing, and sharing it with your friends. Get full access to Geoffrey Breedwell at geoffreybreedwell.substack.com/subscribe