| Africa and the American Negro: Africa and the American Negro Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa: Held under the Auspices of the Stew Contributor(s): Bowen, J. W. E. (Editor), Bowen, J. W. E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1946640034 ISBN-13: 9781946640031 Publisher: Historic Publishing OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections - History | African American |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 7.44" W x 9.69" (1.32 lbs) 334 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Black History |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: No archaeologist, no historian, no philologist will be more startled by the data collected in this book than I have been in their discovery. While I to a certain extent foresaw the end toward which the presence of Africans in America before Columbus must ultimately lead in the social and religious orders, I did not allow myself in my first two volumes to be influenced by any such considerations, but confined myself to an analysis of the documentary evidence as to the American origin of cotton, tobacco, the bread roots, and wampum. When it became necessary similarly to subject the spiritual culture of the New World to a comparative study, it turned out that the difficulties in the way were far more serious than when I undertook to brush aside the accumulated misconceptions in regard to the material civilization of pre-Columbian times. Not only was the documentary proof scanty for America..... |