Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks

Description: Amazon.com Review Further developing the themes he so eloquently outlines in Blacks in Antiquity, Frank M. Snowden Jr. continues his investigations into attitudes towards Africans in the classical civilizations of Rome and Greece. Snowden identifies the African blacks from Egypt, Nubia (the modern Sudan), Ethiopia, and Carthage (Tunisia), discussing their interactions--including intermarriage--with the Greco-Romans. (He also notes that many of the artistic representations of these people resemble present-day African Americans.) From the trade missions of the Egyptian dynasties to their conquest of the Mediterranean and ultimate ... (more)

Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Release date: 1 March 1991
ISBN-10 : 0674063813 | ISBN-13: 9780674063815

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