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Principia of ethnology : the origin of races and color : with an archaeological compendium of Ethiopian and Egyptian civilization from years of careful examination and injury

Title
Principia of ethnology : the origin of races and color : with an archaeological compendium of Ethiopian and Egyptian civilization from years of careful examination and injury / by Martin R. Delany.
Author
Delany, Martin Robison, 1812-1885.
Publication
Philadelphia : Harper & Brother, publishers, no. 413 Walnut Street, 1880.

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Additional Authors
Harper & Brothers, publisher.
Description
109, [1] p. : ill., map; 23 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subject
  • Monogenism and polygenism
  • Human skin color
  • Black race
  • Hamites
  • Cushites
  • Ethiopia > Civilization
  • Egypt > Civilization
Note
  • "Copyright, Harper& Brother, 1879."--verso of title page.
  • Last page blank.
Provenance (note)
  • is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Contents
The origin of races and color -- The creation of man -- The original man -- The family of Noah -- The origin of races -- How color originates -- Special explanation on color -- The progress of races -- Progress of the black race -- Builders of the pyramids -- Progress in literature -- Their religious polity -- Who were the gods -- Wisdom of Ethiopia and Egypt -- Garden of the Hesperides -- Serpent of the garden -- Modern and ancient Ethiopia -- Comparative elements of civilization.
Call Number
Sc Rare 572.3-D (Delany, M. R. Principia of ethnology. 1880)
OCLC
7949038
Author
Delany, Martin Robison, 1812-1885.
Title
Principia of ethnology : the origin of races and color : with an archaeological compendium of Ethiopian and Egyptian civilization from years of careful examination and injury / by Martin R. Delany.
Imprint
Philadelphia : Harper & Brother, publishers, no. 413 Walnut Street, 1880.
Edition
Second and revised edition.
Provenance
Copy in Sc Rare 572.3-D (accession no. B526314) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
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Black author.
Added Author
Harper & Brothers, publisher.
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Research Call Number
Sc Rare 572.3-D (Delany, M. R. Principia of ethnology. 1880)
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