Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks

by Frank M. Snowden Jr.

Book Overview

In this richly illustrated account of black-white contacts from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, Frank Snowden demonstrates that the ancients did not discriminate against blacks because of their color.

For three thousand years Mediterranean whites intermittently came in contact with African blacks in commerce and war, and left a record of these encounters in art and in written documents. The blacks--most commonly known as Kushites, Ethiopians,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674063813
• ISBN13: 9780674063815
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"