Vi. The Great Lakes And Zymbabwe : * "The Negro", by W.E.B. Du Bois, [1915], p. 46 VI THE GREAT LAKES AND ZYMBABWE We have already seen how a branch of the conquering Bantus turned eastward by the Great Lakes and thus reached the sea and eventually both the Nile and South Africa. This brought them into the ancient and mysterious...
Xii. The Negro Problems : * "The Negro", by W.E.B. Du Bois, [1915], p. 139 XII THE NEGRO PROBLEMS It is impossible to separate the population of the world accurately by race, since that is no scientific criterion by which to divide races. If we divide the world, however, roughly into African Negroes and Negroids, Europe...
I. Africa : * "The Negro", by W.E.B. Du Bois, [1915], p. 4 I. The Physical Geography of Africa p. 5 I AFRICA Africa is at once the most romantic and the most tragic of continents. Its very names reveal its mystery and wide-reaching influence. It is the "Ethiopia" of the Greek, the "Kush" and "Punt"...
V. Guinea And Congo : * "The Negro", by W.E.B. Du Bois, [1915], p. 36 V GUINEA AND CONGO One of the great cities of the Sudan was Jenne. The chronicle says "that its markets are held every day of the week and its populations are very enormous. Its seven thousand villages are so near to one another that the chief...
Viii. African Culture : * "The Negro", by W.E.B. Du Bois, [1915], p. 62 VIII AFRICAN CULTURE We have followed the history of mankind in Africa down the valley of the Nile, past Ethiopia to Egypt; we have seen kingdoms arise along the great bend of the Niger and strive with the ancient culture at its mouth. We have seen...
X. The West Indies And Latin America : * "The Negro", by W.E.B. Du Bois, [1915], p. 96 X THE WEST INDIES AND LATIN AMERICA That was a wonderful century, the fifteenth, when men realized that beyond the scowling waste of western waters were dreams come true. Curious and yet crassly human it is that, with all this poetry and romance...
Iii. Ethiopia And Egypt : * "The Negro", by W.E.B. Du Bois, [1915], p. 17 III ETHIOPIA AND EGYPT Having viewed now the land and movements of African people in main outline, let us scan more narrowly the history of five main centers of activity and culture, namely: the valleys of the Nile and of the Congo, the borders...
Suggestions For Further Reading : * "The Negro", by W.E.B. Du Bois, [1915], p. 147 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING There is no general history of the Negro race. Perhaps Sir Harry H. Johnston, in his various works on Africa, has come as near covering the subject as any one writer, but his valuable books have puzzling...
Ix. The Trade In Men : * "The Negro", by W.E.B. Du Bois, [1915], p. 86 IX THE TRADE IN MEN Color was never a badge of slavery in the ancient or medieval world, nor has it been in the modern world outside of Christian states. Homer sings of a black man, a "reverend herald" Of visage solemn, sad, but sable hue, Short...
Xi. The Negro In The United States : * "The Negro", by W.E.B. Du Bois, [1915], p. 110 XI THE NEGRO IN THE UNITED STATES There were half a million slaves in the confines of the United States when the Declaration of Independence declared "that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable...
Iv. The Niger And Islam : * "The Negro", by W.E.B. Du Bois, [1915], p. 27 IV THE NIGER AND ISLAM The Arabian expression "Bilad es Sudan" (Land of the Blacks) was applied to the whole region south of the Sahara, from the Atlantic to the Nile. It is a territory some thirty-five hundred miles by six hundred miles, containing...
Ii. The Coming Of Black Men : * "The Negro", by W.E.B. Du Bois, [1915], p. 11 II THE COMING OF BLACK MEN The movements of prehistoric man can be seen as yet but dimly in the uncertain mists of time. This is the story that to-day seems most probable: from some center in southern Asia primitive human beings beg...
Title Page : * "The Negro", by W.E.B. Du Bois, [1915], THE NEGRO BY WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT DU BOIS New York: Henry Holt And Company [1915] Scanned, Proofed And Formatted , October 2004, By John Bruno Hare. This Text Is In The Public Domain In The United States Because It Was Published Prior To 1923.
Vii. The War Of Races At Land's End : * "The Negro", by W.E.B. Du Bois, [1915], p. 53 VII THE WAR OF RACES AT LAND'S END Primitive man in Africa is found in the interior jungles and down at Land's End in South Africa. The Pygmy people in the jungles represent to-day a small survival from the past, but a survival of curious interest...
Untitled : * This is a pioneering work on African-American history by the noted activist and scholar, W.E.B. Du Bois. Born in 1868, three years after the end of the Civil War, Du Bois lived until 1963, one year before the March on Washington. He was a founder of the NAACP, and worked his entire life to lift...
Preface : * "The Negro", by W.E.B. Du Bois, [1915], p. 1 THE NEGRO p. 2 TO A FAITHFUL HELPER M. G. A. p. 3 PREFACE 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...
