Africa's Gift to America: The Afro-American in the Making and Saving of the United States

Classic work of black study indicating a place for African people within Western history

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. 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.

Author: J. A. Rogers
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 03/18/2014
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.66lbs
Size: 10.79h x 8.44w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9780819575166
Civil War Cente Edition