The legend that the Negro race had touched America even before the - TopicsExpress



          

The legend that the Negro race had touched America even before the day of Columbus rests upon a certain basis of facts. First, the Negro countenance, clear and unmistakable, occurs repeatedly in Indian carvings, among relics of the Mound Builders and in Mexican temples. Secondly, there are evidences of Negro customs among the Indians in their religious worship; in their methods of building defenses such as the mounds probably were; and particularly in customs of trade. Columbus said that he had been told of a land southwest of the Cape Verde Islands where the [B]lack folk had been trading and had used in their trade the well-known African alloy of gold called guanin. -W.E.B DuBois The Black Explorers The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America (1924)
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:16:24 +0000

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