Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780819575166
Pub Date: 18 Mar 2014
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Illustrations: 184 illus.
Description:
Originally published in 1959 and revised and expanded in 1989, this book asserts that Africans had contributed more to the world than was previously acknowledged. Historian Joel Augustus Rogers devoted a significant amount of his professional life to unearthing facts about people of African ancestry. He intended these findings to be a refutation of contemporary racist beliefs about the inferiority of blacks.