Origin of the Negro Race (1900)
Author: Henry Morton Stanley
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Published: 2020-08-24
Total Pages: 30
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"'Origin of the Negro Race' cites the work of Victorian naturalists, ethnographers, and linguists." -The Lost White Tribe (2016) "On the sculptures of Egyptian monuments, on the face of the Sphynx, in the features of the most ancient mummies, and in those of Egyptian wooden and stone statues, I see the Afro-Asiatic type." -Henry Morton Stanley "In all my travels I have seen nothing so wonderful than this, that, in whatever disguise I found man, something in him seems to justify the belief that 'we are all the children of one Father.'" So concludes Henry Morton Stanley in his short 12-page work "Origin of the Negro Race," published in 1900. Stanley describes the ancient Egyptians as "people are commonly called Turanians, and they have been variously described as 'dusky, dark, black, black-skinned, and their hair as varying from coarse, straight, black hair,' to 'curly,' 'crinkly' and 'woolly.'" Noting other early black civilizations, Stanley writes that "on the Asiatic continent there are still abundant evidences of the color of early man. In the Dravidian Hill tribes, in Eastern Assam, the Malacca peninsula, Perak, Cochin China, the Andaman, Sandal and Nicobar Islands, we find from a host of authorities that it was black, and that some of the people had decidedly woolly hair, others kinky or frizzly hair, others straight and coal black. A still earlier man may be represented by the Negrillos--the Ainus, the Esquimaux and the Lapps." Stanley's short book provides an interesting window into the thoughts of a 19th century explorer of the African continent. About the author: Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841 -1904) was a journalist and explorer who was famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone. Upon finding Livingstone, Stanley reportedly asked, "Dr Livingstone, I presume?" Stanley is also known for his search for the source of the Nile, his pioneering work that enabled the occupation of the Congo Basin region by King Leopold II of Belgium, and his command of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. He was knighted in 1899.
