The New Negro: His Political, Civil and Mental Status and Related Essays (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The New Negro: His Political, Civil and Mental Status and Related EssaysThe black people of this ancient world were not of low caste or marked as inferiors in any special way. They were by no means a slave or servile class; the blood of their veins was poured all through the civilized and half-civilized World, and its traces are clear today in southern Asia as far as India and in southern Europe.' Does the trav eller not notice the black people among the Turks, and the beautiful brown face that is occasionally met among the Italians? It is said, too, that these African people had a cotton industry before Eng land, and that they originated the smelting of iron. Think of what the invention of iron conferred upon civilization. Our civilization without its iron would be like the human body without its skeleton: it would collapse, it could not stand and go, it could only crawl and creep.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.