Research Catalog

Title

Blacks before America / Mark Hyman.

Author

Hyman, Mark

Publication

Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, 1994.

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Details

Description

xi, 155 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Africa > History > To 1498
• Black people > Africa > History
• To 1498

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The Kingdom of Mali -- Clitus Niger, Aide to Alexander -- Terence, Latin Playwright -- Zenobia, Queen of The East -- The Land of Punt -- Saint Augustine -- Egypt's Twenty-Fifth Dynasty -- The Smelting of Iron -- Blacks: Centuries of Christianity -- Black Africans And Gold -- The University At Sankore -- Imhotep, Black Egyptian Physician -- The Falashas, The Black Jews -- An African Voyage to America -- Early Black Migrations -- Bilal, Aide To Mohammed -- African Traders -- Anna Zingha, Warrior Queen of Angola -- Aesop, The Black Fabulist -- Black African Presence in America -- Before the Dawn of History -- Hatshepsut, First Queen of Egypt -- Akhnaton, Believer in One God -- Tut, Black Boy King -- Candaces of Ethiopia -- Makeda, Queen of Sheba -- Scientists and Builders -- Blacks in Mythology -- Influence on the Greeks -- Among the Romans -- Black Emperor of Rome -- Herodotus Reported on Blacks -- Cush (Ethiopia): A World Power -- The Unmatched City of Ancient Meroe -- Impact on Asia and the Orient.
• Three Black African Popes -- Blacks in the New World -- Sunni Ali Ber, King of Songhay -- Great African Warriors -- Ramses III -- Tarharka "The Triple Crown" -- Hannibal, Black Threat to Rome -- Antar, Warrior and Poet -- Cetewayo -- Lucius Quietus -- Eighty-year-old General Yusif Bin Tashfin -- Conquerors of Spanish Christians -- American Black Ancestors -- A Black General Died for Christ -- Portuguese Black Royalty -- Blacks Discovered Europe -- Two Blacks Fought Over Rome -- The Brightness of Dark Africa -- Black Caesar Murdered -- Mother of Saint Augustine -- A Deeper Look at Aesop -- Sophonisba: A Beautiful Black Sacrifice -- Julius Caesar Wept for Carthage -- Black Sahara: 8,000 Years Ago -- Hypatia: Black, Beautiful and Brainy -- White Slaves, Black Masters -- Kahina: Jewish, African and Defiant -- Africans Saved the Byzantine -- Struggle of Early Black Christians -- Abderraham Saved African History -- Treasures of Ancient Nigeria -- Early African Religions -- Endless Ethiopia.

ISBN

0865432988

LCCN

^^^93012392^

OCLC

27725880

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library