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The origin of races and color

Title
The origin of races and color / Martin R. Delany.
Author
Delany, Martin Robison, 1812-1885
Publication
Baltimore, MD : Black Classic Press, 1991.

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Description
95 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 22 cm
Uniform Title
Principia of ethnology
Alternative Title
Principia of ethnology
Subject
  • Monogenism and polygenism
  • Human skin color
  • Black race
  • Skin Pigmentation
  • Black People
  • Civilization
  • Rassentheorie
  • Entstehung
  • Egypt > Civilization
  • Egypt
Note
  • Originally published: Principia of ethnology : the origin of races and color : with an archeological compendium of Ethiopian and Egyptian civilization, from years of careful examination and enquiry. Philadelphia : Harper, 1879.
Contents
Chapter 1-The Origin of Races and Color -- Chapter 2-The Creation of Man -- Chapter 3-The Original Man -- Chapter 4-The Family of Noah -- Chapter 5-The Origin of Races -- Chapter 6-How Color Originates -- Chapter 7-Special Explanation of Color -- Chapter 8-The Progress of Races -- Chapter 9-Progress of the Black Race -- Chapter 10- Builders of the Pyramids -- Chapter 11-Progress in Literature -- Chapter 12-Their Religious Polity-Chapter 13-WhoWere the Gods -- Chapter 14-Wisdom of Ethiopia and Egypt -- Chapter 15-Garden of Hesperides -- Chapter 16-Serpent of the Garden -- Chapter 17-Modern and Ancient Ethiopia -- Chapter 18-Comparative Elements of Civilization.
ISBN
  • 0933121504
  • 9780933121508
  • 0933121512
  • 9780933121515
LCCN
90082685
OCLC
  • ocm24791343
  • 24791343
  • SCSB-14669481
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library