In The Black Man: Father of Civilization Proven by Biblical History, the American pastor James Morris Webb (1878-1940) of the African Methodist Episcopal Church uses the Bible as evidence that African, dark-skinned, or colored people were the progenitors of all civilizations on Earth. Following the bloodline of Adam and Eve, to Ham, David, Solomon, and Jesus, Webb provides a stirring basis that some of the Bible’s main characters were, in fact, people of color.
