"Tanner argues...Ham's descendants, including Egyptians, the Carthaginians, the Phoenicians, and the Canaanites, built pyramids and Tower of Babel." - A.M.E. Church Review (1898) "Tanner feared...the Darwinian theory...vigorously defended the scriptural account of the race's humanity and origin." - African Americans and the Bible (2012) Not only does Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner argue that Ham was the progenitor of the Black race in his short 18-page 1898 book "The Descent of the Negro," he also maintains that the Black race is of high rank in human development. Ham's descendants, including Egyptians, the Carthaginians, the Phoenicians, and the Canaanites, built pyramids and Tower of Babel and were responsible for the great accomplishments throughout history. At the same time, he refutes the Curse of Ham notion. His position is that the Bible is the primary authority on history in general and Black history in particular, as it is an infallible source of information. Benjamin Tucker Tanner (1835 –1923) was an African American clergyman and editor. He served as a Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1886, and founded the Christian Recorder an important early African American newspaper and was an editor of the A.M.E. Church Review. Other works of the author include: • The Color of Solomon • The Descent of the Negro • The Negro in Holy Writ