The Peoples Of Africa: Kabyles
Frederick Starr
We rightly think of Africa as the home of the negroes, but it is a mistake to think that no other peoples dwell in that continent.
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African Women
Anonymous
The Africans were formerly renowned for their industry in cultivating the ground, for their trade, navigation, caravans and useful arts. At present they are remarkable for their idleness, ignorance, superstition, treachery, and, above all, for their lawless methods of robbing and murdering all the other inhabitants of the globe.
(more…)Frederick Starr On The Negroes
Frederick Starr
We have already spoken of the district of true negroes. In the Sudan they are at their best and purest type. The skin is almost black; the head long and narrow; the face narrow; the hair kinky and woolly. The lower part of the face projects far beyond the upper part. The lips are thick. Negroes have an odor which is peculiar to them, and which most white persons dislike. Many of the negro tribes are composed of persons who are tall, strong, and well built.
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