Ahiman Rezon, or a Help to All That Are, or Would Be, Free and Accepted Masons (+) A collection of Masons Song, with several prologues and Epilogues, to which is adedd Solomon's Temple, an Ratorio.

“But the Ancients and Moderns did not disagree about everything. The Ancients agreed with the Moderns concerning the requirements for candidates and with many of the legends summarized by Anderson. Significantly, Dermott modified the history as it pertained to Cain and Ham: “It is certain that Freemasonry has existed from the creation, though probably not under that name; that it was a divine gift from God; that Cain and the builders of his city were strangers to the secret mystery of Masonry, that there were but four Masons in the world when the deluge happened; that one of the four, even the second son of Noah, was not a master of the art.
”There was even less agreement about the history of Freemasonry in England and it has been noted that Anderson’s history “provoked…sarcastic references from Dermott in Ahiman Rezon.”The differences between Anderson’s Constitutions and Dermott’s Ahiman Rezon, concerning the legends of Freemasonry, and particularly whether Ham had been a Master Mason, were significant.  Dermott’s history provided one foundation upon which some American Masons could rationalize that Ham’s descendants, who they believed were black, were ineligible to become Freemasons. This modification of Masonic legend provided a partial justification which explained why African Americans, even those who were free-born, “had been rendered unfit for membership in the Order by experience of servitude.”They were “cursed” and, as such, did not qualify under the “ancient landmarks.” Their skin color set them apart and, for many American Masons, this disqualification became perpetual and hereditary.” (The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 2006 Vol. 26)