The Negro - Softcover

W. E. B. Du Bois; William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486414434 ISBN 13: 9780486414430

Publisher: Dover Publications, 2001

Synopsis

This work, by one of the champions of the early civil rights movement in the U.S., pulls together the various elements of African history and highlights the distinctive and complex cultures existing in Africa before the slave trade, citing evidence of architectural development, iron working, writing, and numerous other cultural advances.

About this title

From the Publisher:

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From the Author:

The time has not yet come for a complete history of the Negro peoples. Archaeological research in Africa has just begun, and many sources of information in Arabian, Portuguese, and other tongues are not fully at our command; and, too, it must frankly be confessed, racial prejudice against darker peoples is still too strong in so-called civilized centers for judicial appraisement of the peoples of Africa. Much intensive monographic work in history and science is needed to clear mooted points and quiet the controversialist who mistakes present personal desire for scientific proof.

Nevertheless, I have not been able to withstand the temptation to essay such short general statement of the main known facts and their fair interpretation as shall enable the general reader to know as men a sixth or more of the human race. Manifestly so short a story must be mainly conclusions and generalizations with but meager indication of authorities and underlying arguments. Possibly, if the Public will, a later and larger book may be more satisfactory on these points. -- W.E. Burghardt Du Bois, New York City, February 1, 1915

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0486414434
• ISBN 13: 9780486414430
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176