The_Negro

<i>The Negro</i>

The Negro

Book by W. E. B. Du Bois

The Negro is a book by W. E. B. Du Bois published in 1915 and released in electronic form by Project Gutenberg in 2011.[1] It is an overview of African-American history, tracing it as far back as the sub-Saharan cultures, including Great Zimbabwe, Ghana and Songhai, as well as covering the history of the slave trade and the history of Africans in the United States and the Caribbean.

This article is about the 1915 book. For other uses, see Negro (disambiguation).

Historians John Parker and Richard Rathbone call the book the "first serious attempt at a continent-wide history [of Africa]".[2]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "The Negro by W. E. B. Du Bois" at Project Gutenberg.
  2. [2]
    African History: A Very Short Introduction, p. 36.

This article about a non-fiction book on African history is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub icon

This article about a non-fiction book on U.S. history is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article The_Negro, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.