''The Negro'' is a book by
W. E. B. Du Bois published in 1915 and released in electronic form by
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in 2011. It is an overview of
African-American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ensl ...
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
Slavery and enslavement are both the state and the condition of being a slave—someone forbidden to quit one's service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as property. Slavery typically involves slaves being made to perf ...
and the history of Africans in the United States and the
Caribbean.
Historians John Parker and Richard Rathbone call the book the "first serious attempt at a continent-wide history
f Africa.
[African History: A Very Short Introduction, p. 36.]
See also
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Negro
In the English language, ''negro'' is a term historically used to denote persons considered to be of Black African heritage. The word ''negro'' means the color black in both Spanish and in Portuguese, where English took it from. The term can be ...
References
1915 non-fiction books
20th-century history books
Works by W. E. B. Du Bois
History of slavery
Non-fiction books about slavery
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