Africa's Gift to America: The Afro-American in the Making and Saving of the United StatesOriginally 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. Rogers asserted that the color of skin did not determine intellectual genius, and he publicized the great black civilizations that had flourished in Africa during antiquity. According to Rogers, many ancient African civilizations had been primal molders of Western civilization and culture. |
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Page 113
... Washington with Negro helper on his surveying expeditions . Negroes served as personal attendants to Washington during the war . Among them were Hamet Achmet , skilled as a maker of drums ; Primus Hall , who once slept beside Washington ...
... Washington with Negro helper on his surveying expeditions . Negroes served as personal attendants to Washington during the war . Among them were Hamet Achmet , skilled as a maker of drums ; Primus Hall , who once slept beside Washington ...
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... Washington family with William Lee ( right ) Washington's. MONDAY , APRIL 4 , 1785 . Congress variably through the most trying times main- tained a constant friendship and attention to the cause of our country and its independence and ...
... Washington family with William Lee ( right ) Washington's. MONDAY , APRIL 4 , 1785 . Congress variably through the most trying times main- tained a constant friendship and attention to the cause of our country and its independence and ...
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... WASHINGTON HAD NEGRO CARPENTERS In a contract George Washington made with Benjamin Butler , one reads , " The said George Washington hath several Negro carpenters which he proposes to put under said Benjamin Buckler . . . to use his ...
... WASHINGTON HAD NEGRO CARPENTERS In a contract George Washington made with Benjamin Butler , one reads , " The said George Washington hath several Negro carpenters which he proposes to put under said Benjamin Buckler . . . to use his ...
Contents
Part Page | 1 |
THE AFRICAN BACKGROUND | 7 |
THE AFRICANAMERICAN IN THE MAKING OF THE UNITED STATES | 97 |
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