The Negro

This is the classic history of African peoples in Africa and the New World, a debunking of the erroneous post-Civil War assumption that Africans had no civilization beyond the one imposed on them by their slave traders. DuBois, one of America’s greatest writers, lays out in easy-to-read, nonacademic prose the striking and illustrious story of Africa’s complex history and varied cultures, from the continent’s art and industry to the dramatic impact the slave trade had both in Africa and on her descendents in the Western Hemisphere, in a book written for a popular audience in 1915. This crucial study, boldly proud and eloquently written, will please readers of American and African history.