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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Black Man, the Father of Civilization + Proven by Biblical History + +Author: James Morris Webb + +Release Date: April 22, 2012 [EBook #39509] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BLACK MAN, FATHER OF CIVILIZATION *** + + + + +Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/frontis.jpg" alt="" /></div> +<p class="center">JAMES MORRIS WEBB, A. M.<br /> +Evangelist of the Church of God<br /> +(Acts 20-28, Biblical)]</p> + + + +<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> +<h1><small>The<br /> +Black Man</small></h1> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">The Father of Civilization</span></p> +<p> </p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">Proven by Biblical<br /> +History</span></p> +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/deco.jpg" alt="" /></div> +<p> </p> +<p class="center">AUTHOR:<br /> +<span class="large">James Morris Webb, A. M.</span></p> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p class="center">Copyright Applied For</p> + + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 50%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p> +<h2>PREFACE.</h2> + + +<p>I have many objects in presenting this book to the public.</p> + +<p><i>First</i>: I love my race regardless of the prejudice against her, the +unenviable position she holds, and the things she is falsely said to be +guilty of.</p> + +<p>I demonstrate my love for her by launching this book before the public as +somewhat of a defense against the prejudice of ancient, as well as modern +historical writers and lecturers, who have misrepresented her, and took +from her the good deeds and honors that are justly due her.</p> + +<p><i>Secondly</i>: I realize that my race has had defenders, and has some now, +men of my race and men of other races. But I am simply presenting this +book as an humble race defender, in connection with the body of race +defenders, and if my theory in this book is accepted as one of the little +fingers of this splendid body, I will feel that I have accomplished some +results and thus portrayed the story of “The Widow’s Mite”—she gave all +she had, and I contribute likewise.</p> + +<p><i>Thirdly</i>: To appreciate my argument, the reader had best have a Bible at +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span>his finger tips so as to examine my references and compare them with my +statements, which I make wholly and solely upon the authorities found in +the Bible, which in turn is the real and only authority on ancient history +(again my authority is not inspired in the slightest degree with malice or +hatred for the white race). My profession as a Minister of the Gospel of +Jesus Christ would not permit me to defend in the name of justice, +harboring malice and hatred or any ill feeling toward my white brethren. I +am acting with that meek and humble spirit and with a gigantic pride in my +race, which I hope, pleases God.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">J. M. WEBB.</span></p> + + + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<div class="border"> +<p class="center"><img src="images/img01.jpg" alt="" /></p> +<p class="center">ABRAHAM LINCOLN<span class="spacer"> </span>FREDERICK DOUGLAS<br /> +DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON</p> + + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">THREE OF THE GREATEST MEN IN AMERICAN HISTORY</p> + +<p>Frederick Douglas, the thunder-bolt, whose mighty peals of thunder awoke +the sympathy of the Christian men and women of this country in behalf of +his enslaved and suffering people.</p> + +<p>Abraham Lincoln, the flash of lightning, who, like a streak of light from +Heaven giving hope to the black people, struck the shackles from their +hands and left them lying shattered at their feet.</p> + +<p>Dr. Booker T. Washington, who is nobly directing a never-to-be-forgotten +battle for that moral and industrial education, which Douglas and Lincoln +made it possible for them to obtain.</p></div> + + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p> +<h2>INTRODUCTION</h2> + +<p> </p> +<p class="dropcap"><span class="caps">The</span> Bible gives the first and only true account of the origin of mankind. +It is the only book containing an accurate record of the progress of man +toward civilization, and it is the indispensable reference of all +searchers after the real facts of the birth of humanity and its progress +toward the civilization of today; beginning with his creation, it is the +only authentic record of man; authentic because it is first hand, not a +copy of something else or a scientific or literary review, but a +dispassionate record of man’s creation and progress, untrimmed, unshaped +and unvarnished, to suit prejudice. It would not be a complete record if +it did not show with the rest of them the origin of the black man and “Woe +for all these pinnacle thieves”—it shows that he, the “black man” is the +“father of civilization.”</p> + +<p>The black man has been misrepresented by prejudiced historians and +lecturers. It has been and is now quoted that Ham, the father of the black +man, was cursed by his father, Noah. Now, in regard to this <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span>incident let +us take the Biblical record for it, and anyone not totally blind with +prejudice will be convinced by reading in the Book of Genesis the 9th +Chapter from the 20th to the 27th verse inclusive, that Noah did not, “for +he could not curse” Ham, although he did in a fit of intoxication +pronounce a curse on Canaan, the son of Ham. In passing, I might mention +that Canaan was never inconvenienced by the curse of Noah, because he was +the Father of seven prosperous nations, foremost among them were the +Canaanites, Phoenicians and Sidonians. The Sidonians sprang from Sidon, +who was the first son of Canaan, according to Genesis 10th Chapter 15th +verse. These same Sidonians are the men “descended from black men” whom +Solomon ordered Hiram of Tyre to engage to do the skilled hewing and +designing of the timber work on Solomon’s temple—Solomon declaring that +these Sidonians, “black men” were the only men possessed with anywhere +near sufficient skill to take charge of and successfully complete the +artistic timber work on “His” Solomon’s temple. First Kings 5th Chapter +6th verse speaks very plainly of this fact. Solomon knew the black race +was a superior, not an inferior race. He married Pharoah’s daughter—see +1st Kings, 3rd<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> Chapter 1st verse; 7th Chapter 8th verse, also the 9th +Chapter and 16th verse. Solomon’s wife might have been of as dark skin or +even as black as he was, for history shows that Egypt had two full blooded +Ethiopian Pharoahs just before and during the reign of Solomon, according +to Herodotus, the names of these two Ethiopians were Sabaco or “Sebichos” +and Sethos, so Solomon surely got an Ethiopian “Negro or black” woman for +a wife. This naturally increased the proportion of Negro blood in the +veins of the future King of the Jews. Viewing the progress of the +immediate descendants of Ham we learn that a curse laid upon one by a +mortal of that day was as foolish and ineffective as it is in this, the +story about this curse, also the story of the black man who contended that +a black skin and woolly hair is a disgrace, has, according to the Bible, +no foundation. Speaking of black skin, the greatest brain work and wisdom +ever given to this world was given by men of black skins, or at least in +whose veins the greatest portion of blood was Ethiopian or Negro blood. As +to this assertion and King Solomon, see “Songs of Solomon 1st Chapter 6th +verse.” Solomon’s dark skin should cause no surprise, because his mother, +Hittite, was also the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> widow of Uriah (see 2nd Samuels 12th Chapter 9th +and 10th verses). The Hittites are the descendants of Heth and Heth was +the second son of Canaan (see Genesis 10th Chapter 15th verse).</p> + +<p>As to the woolly hair, Jesus, the Blessed Saviour of Mankind, will have +His head covered with woolly hair when he comes to judge the world, +(Daniel 7th Chapter 9th and 10th verses). Now, if Daniel’s prophecy is +true that when Christ left this earth he had woolly hair, he naturally +will return with woolly hair, and the pictures of Him today are an +erroneous conception of Him, by the artists. This grand old book the +Bible, does not show that God ever turned a man black to disgrace him for +his sins, or anything else, but this same Bible does show that God’s power +did turn a man white to disgrace him because of his sins, and said that +his seed would be likewise forever. Facts are stubborn things and often +very disagreeable, sometimes even sickening, and by reading carefully the +5th Chapter of the 2nd Kings, 25th, 26th and 27th verses, many of our +highly civilized brethren “whose ancient ancestors disgraced them” will +suffer an alarming fit of nausea. Among the many low cowardly things that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> +have been said and done against the Negro during this Christian era, one +poor benighted individual published a “joke” in book form, in which he +claims that, the Negro is a beast, the poor fellow tries to be serious, +and no doubt thinks he is offering at least some proof of his assertion. +The poor fellow of course, receives some sympathy, and would no doubt +receive as much as any of the rest of his class, were it not for the fact +that he holds a Professorship in one of our leading American Christian +Universities. Of course the disgust, if any, is felt for those responsible +for placing the poor devil in such a position, and the real and well +placed sympathy is for the student, who must suffer because of this +fellow. The fact remains, however, that regardless of what has been said +and done against the Negro and of whatever might be said or done against +him in future, he is the ONLY man who can trace himself back through the +ages to his origin, and find monumental evidence of his unequaled +greatness, his prowess, the laurels and great honors he won, the things he +created and perfected which have a direct influence on our civilization of +today.</p> + +<p>The “black man” I boldly assert “was the Father of civilization,” born in +the land<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> of Egypt, and the different branches of Science and Art were +simply transmitted to other races, which, as the ages have rolled by have +only been enlarged and to some extent improved upon. Even the modern +American Negro has proven that he is original, for instance—as a +Tonsorial Artist he has no superiors and no Negro was ever known to enter +a “Barber College” to learn the trade. Negroes inherit the sweetest, most +musical voices, and if you have not heard a Negro quartette or chorus +after they have arranged the harmony of a piece they are to sing, you have +not heard what is best and sweetest in vocal music. As instrumentalists +“not forgetting the many others” I simply mention Blind Tom, and Blind +Boone, the fame of these two men needs no comment. They only displayed +that talent handed down to them through centuries by their black +ancestors. As for the Negro being original, why the Negro has given great +America the only claim she ever did or ever will have to a National music.</p> + +<p>God honored the black man by allowing some of his Ethiopian blood to flow +in the veins of His only Son Jesus Christ, and I unhesitatingly assert +that Jesus would in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> America be classed a NEGRO. I make this assertion +only on the authority of the Bible, according to which Jesus was born out +of the tribe of Judah. Judah had only five children and they were males, +(1st Chron. 2nd ch. and 4th v.), three by his first wife and two by his +second wife (1st Chron. 2nd ch. 3rd and 4th vs.), and both of his wives +were descendants of Canaan, a black man who was the son of Ham (Genesis +10th ch. 6th v.). Tamar, Judah’s second wife, bore him two of these sons +whose names were Phares and Zarah (1st Chron. 2nd ch. and 4th v.), these +two names appear in the genealogy of Jesus Christ in the Book of Matthew +(1st Chapter 3rd verse), so it is no trouble to see that Judah of whom +Christ was to come, started out by presenting to the world children of +Canaanite women who were Hamite descendants. Now, Virgin Mary, of whom +Christ was born was beyond all doubt a woman out of the tribe of Judah, +and every Bible reference proclaims that Jesus was to spring from this +tribe of Judah (Genesis 49-10, Heb. 7-14, Rev. 5-5th). Our beloved St. +Paul tells us in (Romans 1-3) that Jesus was of the seed of David +according to the flesh. David is the 10th man named from Judah in the +genealogy of Jesus Christ (Matthew 1st<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> Chapter, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th +verses). Added to this David’s great, great grandfather “Booz” was born of +the woman Rahab, who was a direct descendant of Ham (Matthew 1st Chapter +5th verse). This also shows that David, one of God’s greatest soldiers, +was one who most successfully led his people and one who had Negro blood +in his veins. Bible history is full of honors for the Black Man, Jethro +the Ethiopian or Negro father-in-law of Moses, who was the author who +first employed that, which is today, our judicial system, considerably +twisted and revised to meet the changing conditions of civilization +(Exodus 18th Chapter). This chapter tells of Jethro’s visit to Moses, and +how he gave Moses the foundation of what is today our system of graded +courts for pronouncing judgments. Again Moses “The Hebrew Emancipator” was +named by a black woman “Pharoah’s daughter”—she said she called him Moses +because she drew him out of the water (Exodus 2-10) and besides black men +educated Moses. At any rate he received what education he had in the +schools of the black people of Egypt (Acts 7th 22nd), so there is nothing +remarkable in the fact that Dr. Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, W. +S. Scarborough and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> many other Negro or black men occupy places among the +foremost and most eminent educators of the world, and why should they not? +They are descended from fathers who ruled Egypt centuries ago and with +their great wisdom layed the foundation of learning.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p> + + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<div class="border"> +<p class="center"><img src="images/img02.jpg" alt="" /></p> +<p class="center">BISHOP H. M. TURNER, D.D., L.L.D.<br /> +The Most Fearless Defender the Afro-Americans Have</p> + + +<p> </p> +<p class="center">BISHOP H. M. TURNER, D.D., L.L.D.</p> + +<p>Bishop H. M. Turner, born at Newbury, South Carolina, February 1st, 1833, +is the senior Bishop of the A. M. E. Church. He has been Bishop for +thirty-one years, and is quoted as the walking encyclopedia of Methodism, +and for this cause the last general conference that convened at Norfolk, +Va., on May, 1908, voted unanimously for the good Bishop to be the +historian of the African-Methodist Episcopal Church. It is to be +remembered that Bishop Turner was the first colored man to be a +commissioned officer in the United States Army, which appointment he +received from President Lincoln. The Bishop was twice a member of the +Georgia Legislature, and also the first of his church to be elected Bishop +to Africa.</p></div> + + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="giant">THE BLACK MAN</span></p> + +<p> </p> +<h2>FIRST CHAPTER.</h2> + + +<p> </p> +<p class="dropcap"><span class="caps">“That</span> time changes all things” is a saying so old and so true as to admit +of no argument. It is exemplified in so many different ways as to require +no comment, and yet when we hear the phrase used glibly and thoughtlessly, +every day, it is but natural to wonder if the one who uses it realizes +what he is saying, or rather, if he knows what those few commonplace words +mean, when used to form that sentence.</p> + +<p>It is a foregone conclusion that he does not. He never stopped, “he, of +this enlightened age, I mean,” long enough to examine even a little of the +abundance of indisputable proof that the saying “Time changes all things” +applies to things and conditions, seldom if ever present, to his own +narrow mind, and far away and beyond even his meaner and low prejudiced +influence. If he did, his retrospective mood, would, before carrying him +back to the very beginning, suffer something of a shock, and his attitude +would change. Instead of delighting in history, modern, medieval and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> +ancient, his attitude would change so noticeably that an observer would +imagine that his only interest was in tearing down and falsifying facts, +and concealing records that he could not falsify. When we hear or read the +sayings of some of our “misnamed” great men, but in reality disgustingly +conspicuous public figures, we are fully justified in making the charge of +falsifying and concealing such facts as they are not really ignorant of. +One of these conspicuous public characters delights in making the +assertion that the Hamite Ethiopian or Negro never amounted to anything, +or possessed anything, never occupied an eminence, save to which the +Semitic or white man had dragged or driven him up to. If ignorance alone +was responsible for this glaring falsehood, a great deal of sympathy would +go out to those who make the statement as well as those who believe it to +be true because of their ignorance. As harsh as it may seem sympathy would +be wasted for a great deal of the self asserted enlightenment of today is +but egotism. Much of the so-called wisdom is self praise for successfully +concealing, or at least surrounding historical facts with such mystery as +to place the descendants of Shem upon an eminence which is not justly his +and makes him in his own<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> opinion appear much larger than what he really +is. And yet with all the egotism, some knowledge of the true origin of +mankind exists, and it is this knowledge that causes the fasifying and +hiding as much as possible the true historical records, especially of the +black man. It cannot be said that the learned historical writers, the +great Divines, Theological students and lecturers of today are ignorant of +the history of Ham, the son of Noah, and his descendants, such as Nimrod, +the founder of the great ancient city of Babylon, and also Menes the first +King of Egypt and the founder of the great ancient city of Memphis.</p> + +<p>Ridpath says that the traditions of antiquity points to Memphis and +Babylon as the fountains of human wisdom. If those above-named are +ignorant of the history of the last-named, they are doing the world a +great injustice in assuming the position of teacher and leader. If they +are familiar with the history of the races and the deeds of men, they will +no doubt have for them and their kind good and sufficient reasons for +making false and misleading statements as to some historical records, and +totally forgetting or demeaning others.</p> + +<p>An early Queen of Egypt was a descendant of the Ethiopian or Negro race.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> +This is conceded by some of the modern writers; some of them going so far +as to say that her skin was very black, and a few of them acknowledge that +it was this black queen who placed the first fleet of war ships on the +river Nile. They have no doubt traced this woman back to where they are +satisfied that she was descended in a direct lineal line from Zipporah, +the black and Ethiopian wife of Moses. We read very little of these two +women, because modern writers seek to obscure them, and our ministers of +the gospel never preach or lecture on that part of the Bible in which they +are mentioned. WHY? Because, if they do they must give credit to black +people. In this connection, I do not speak of Biblical history only. Were +it not for the fact that the dimensions of this book would be extended far +beyond what was intended, I could begin even with Hannibal, the +Carthagenian General, and record the accomplishments of black men without +the intervening of any long periods of time, down to the time of Alexander +Dumas, Toussant L’Overture, and Alexander Sergievitch Pouskin, +Russo-African poet. I could do more, I could come into the borders of this +Republic and beginning with Crispus Octikus, or Alexander Hamilton—record +the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> accomplishments of these same black descendants of Ham, down to this +day. This modern record would contain many references to both the war of +Independence and the war of the Rebellion. It would also mention a great +many black men who can never forget El Caney and San Juan Hill. Besides +the heroes of war, modern history is replete with the names of black men +famous in peace for their accomplishments in science and letters of art. +Space will not permit me to dwell upon these men and their accomplishments +and the towering obstacles in spite of which they succeeded. I could not +fail, however, to mention Frederick Douglas who was one of the greatest +statesmen America ever had, even though he was born a slave. Dr. Booker T. +Washington was also born a slave, and is one of the greatest educators the +world has ever known. As to the many other great things black men have +done and are doing, I cannot fail to mention the north pole, for, if human +beings have stood on the spot claimed as the north pole, the black man was +preceded by no one. I speak of Mr. Matt Henson, the Negro, who, if indeed, +the pole ever was reached, was one of the first of the only two “to date” +to reach it.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span></p> + + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<div class="border"> +<p class="center"><img src="images/img03.jpg" alt="" /></p> +<p class="center">PROF. W. S. SCARBOROUGH</p> + +<p>Prof. W. S. Scarborough is head of the Classical Department of Wilberforce +University of Ohio, and Vice-President of the same institution. He, too, +is a great writer in defense of the Afro-American race. Here are some of +his remarks in his master-piece, “Race Integrity”: (See next page.)</p> + +<p> </p> +<p>“The truth is that the term ‘Caucasian’ has little or no meaning as it is +now used. The word itself is a conventional term given at the first by +Blumenbach to designate what he considered the highest type of the human +family, shown by a skull from Mount Caucasus. When we attempt to trace +those who would claim the name as an expression of their superiority we +find the type has disappeared. There is no pure specimen now in existence. +And if we ask what is ‘white’ we can only say, ‘that it is a term used to +designate the absence of color’—that is all, and no sign whatever of +‘race integrity.’ We have already indicated that science and investigation +point to the fact that primitive man was not white. It is no new theory, +but it has seemed convenient for the Saxon to let it rest as much as +possible in discrete oblivion. Bishop H. M. Turner of the African +Methodist Episcopal church has often promulgated it in his own inimitable +way, and Moncure D. Conway has also declared that the white people of the +world today are only a reflex leprosy and that the natural color is brown +or black.”</p></div> + + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p> +<h2>SECOND CHAPTER.</h2> +<p class="title">HIS FIRST HOME</p> + + +<p>God but faintly revealed the puzzle of civilization to Noah and his three +sons, Shem, Ham and Japhet (Genesis 9th Chapter 1st seven verses), and it +became their duty to start to work on the first moves of the puzzle, as +well as to create nations. He, who would begin from the first, moves and +works the matter out to perfection.</p> + +<p>Ham, the father of the black man, located in Africa. Africa was his +homestead, so to speak. David, the Psalmist, credited Ham with this +territory in the 105th Psalm 23rd and 27th verses, and also in the 106th +Psalm 22nd verse. Now, if this is not true, and we reject it on the ground +of not being sufficient proof of the black man’s first and original home, +we can on quite as good ground reject any and every other part of the +Bible, for what I here state is no wild imagination, but FACTS taken from +the Bible.</p> + +<p>Cush, Mizriam, Phut and Canaan were the first sons of Ham (Genesis 10th +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span>Chapter, 6th verse), and these four sons including Nimrod, the grandson +of Ham, were the first to start work on the problem of civilization; in a +word they were the pioneers and the very pillars of civilized governments.</p> + +<p>Cush located in South Egypt on the River Nile. He became the father of the +Ethiopians as well as the father of the Cushites through Nimrod who +located on the Southern part of the Euphrates River. It is to be +remembered that Nimrod is the founder of the Babylonian kingdom (Genesis +10th Chapter, 10th verse.) Mizriam located on the upper part of the River +Nile, and he became the father of the Egyptians. Phut located in the +Northern part of Africa. Canaan located in the land known as the old +Palestine country, which is modern Turkey. Canaan became the father of the +Canaanites (Genesis 10th Chapter, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th verses). +According to the Bible the above is the exact location of the first sons +of Ham, and the question which naturally follows is, “Was civilization +born in their land and given birth by Ham’s first offspring?” It is +conceded by John Clark Ridpath and a few other writers on ancient history +that the Egyptians were the fathers of civilization, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span>according to the +chronology of Manetho, an Egyptian priest. Egypt was founded in the year +B. C. 3892, and Menes was the first mortal King. The all important +question now arises, “Were the Egyptians descendants of black men, or were +they descendants of white men? Were they descendants of Ham or Shem?” It +is well known that students claim to be divided in their opinion as to the +original stock from which the ancient Egyptians came. Ridpath, among +others, says they were neither Semitic nor Negro, but concludes his +remarks on the origin of the Egyptians by saying that the ancient +Egyptians were considered a branch of that part of the Cushite family, +which settled in Asia. Probably the little matter of the Cushites being +the grand-children of Ham slipped Ridpath’s mind, else his statements +would not have been so conflicting, because he just says that they were +not Negroes, but ends his argument by saying that they were a branch of +the Cushite family of Asia.</p> + +<p>It requires no laborious research to establish the facts that Cush was the +father of all Cushite nations. He was also the first son of Ham (Genesis +10th Chapter, 6th verse). Now then, if the Ethiopians and all other +Cushite nations who sprang from this first son of Ham were not Negroes, +will<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> some of our historians omit the word “probably,” so much used by +them, and say <i>what</i> they were. It is fair to assume that with their +boasted intelligence and superior brain power, by this time they would +have been able to search out and connect at least some of the many facts, +and plain, indisputable records in the Bible which leaves no room for +doubt or “probably.”</p> + +<p>We learn from the Bible that Ham is the father of the African family; the +Ethiopian is the darkest or blackest tribe of the Hamites. Cush was the +founder or father of this tribe. Moses selected his wife from this black +or Ethiopian tribe (Numbers 12th Chapter, 1st verse). It must be plain to +any one who will read the parts referred to in the Bible, that Ridpath’s +contention that the Egyptians sprang from the Cushites was the wrong +avenue to escape the blood of the Negro, or their relation to the black +man’s family. I believe, however, that Ridpath wrote in good faith for the +majority of the historical writers claim that the Egyptians descended from +a white race, notwithstanding they admit that the Old Testament gives the +truest, the most complete and reliable record on the origin of the +Egyptians of any other book, so it is not unnatural to believe<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> that their +opinions are influenced by racial prejudice.</p> + +<p>Now it is true that the Bible contains the only authentic, and certainly +the most ancient record of not only the Egyptians, but of all mankind, and +I CAN and will PROVE by it that the Egyptian—Hamite—sprang from Mizriam.</p> + +<p>According to the Biblical Gazette, the word “Egypt” is derived from the +word Mizriam, and this word “Mizriam” was the name of one of the first +sons of Ham (Genesis 10th Chapter, 6th verse). By the word “Egypt” being +coined from the word “Mizriam,” it strengthens my contention that the +Egyptian was descended from the black man. I will now dig down further +into the rich earth of proof for more enlightenment out of the Book of +Truth. By viewing the ancient Bible map of Africa and Asia, which map can +be found in the back of the New Testament, one can readily pick out the +spots upon which Shem, Ham and Japheth first located. You will notice that +Mizriam, the second son of Ham, and the accredited father of the Egyptians +located on the very spot, so to speak, where the great City of Memphis was +built by Menes, the first King of Egypt. Again you will notice that all<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> +the names within African borders are names of the sons of Ham, Shem and +his offspring, located in Asia. Perhaps a better way to locate Ham, Shem +and Japheth and their first offspring is first to read the 10th and 11th +Chapters of Genesis, then locate their names on the map, and it will be +seen that not a Shemite, or white man, originally located in Africa. All +of the white men located in Asia, and according to the Bible white men +never began to travel in Africa until Abraham’s time, B. C. 1921. The +Egyptians lived in a high state of civilization near 2,000 years before +Abraham’s first visit to Egypt, and the appearance of white people was a +circus and a curiosity to the black people. Abraham realized this fact and +commanded his wife to represent herself as his sister, because as he said, +“she was fair to look upon,” white (Genesis 12th Chapter, 11th, 12th and +13th verses). This would indicate that the Egyptians were not white, and I +will say without fear of my assertion being disproven, that until after +the time of Abraham, the Egyptians were a simon pure black race. Shortly +after Abraham’s visit, the Shemitic or white travellers began to pour into +Egypt to such an extent that the Egyptians began inter-marrying with them, +and of course,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> this inter-marrying had its effect of contaminating the +pure Negro blood, and this inter-marrying was the cause of the black man, +or full blooded Egyptian losing the power of control in the Kingdom. In +other words—this is the loop through which the Shepherd or white or +Shemitic kings slipped through and took possession of the Egyptian +kingdom.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p> + + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<div class="border"> +<p class="center"><img src="images/img04.jpg" alt="" /></p> +<p class="center">DR. W. E. BURGHARDT DUBOIS</p> + +<p>Dr. W. E. Burghardt DuBois is the most scholarly speaker and writer of the +Afro-American race. He is the author of the book “Souls of Black Folk,” +which is a marvellous book. On the following page are some of the phrases +from his famous address to the Social Study Clubs of Chicago University.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p>February 13th, 1907, on Education and Civilization:</p> + +<p>“The doing of the world’s work is a great duty and a great privilege. It +is a thing not to be aimed at but to be aimed beyond. Just so soon as a +nation or a country can put its foot upon this satisfaction of the lower +wants and step upward to the greater aspirations of human brotherhood and +the broader ideals of civilization, just so soon the real building of +civilization begins. It seems to me, therefore, that the students of +Chicago University and they that teach them, ought especially, on every +occasion to impress this broader aspect of the race problem. That instead +of putting it in its narrower, nastier channel, instead of stooping to +listen to men, who themselves represent what is lowest and least in our +national organization, that you should strive in every way to realize +yourselves and to show others that this great broad question of humanity +is not a question of petty crime, not a question of so many bales of +cotton, not a question even of mere industrial development, but is a +question of human aspiration, and that if here in America, on the very +fore front of present advance, it is possible to murder the aspiration of +10,000,000 of men, then America is not yet civilized.”</p></div> + + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></p> +<h2>THIRD CHAPTER.</h2> +<p class="title">HIS RULE IN EGYPT</p> + + +<p>Dr. Leonhard Schmitz, Ph. D., LL. D., F. R., S. E., says in his work on +ancient Egyptian history, that these Hyksos or Shepherd Kings were Semite +people. “White,” of course, and they comprised the 15th, 16th and 17th +dynasties, which covered 511 years. Now, during this period, Jacob and his +twelve sons and their families moved from Canaan to Egypt, and other +Semite or whites from Asia did likewise, because the white man had begun +to rule Egypt. At the 18th Dynasty, however, fortune turned against the +white rulers of Egypt, and the black men or the Negroes regained +possession of their country, and banished the whites from their land, +except the Jews, whom they held as slaves. They reorganized the Kingdom +with their own blood, “the blood of the Negro.” Aahmas was the first King +after the whites were driven out, and his wife was Nefruari, the Ethiopian +Princess, greatly celebrated for her dusky charms, her wealth and her +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span>accomplishments. The beginning of this reorganization of a period is +recorded in the 1st Chapter of the Book of Exodus, which shows that at the +beginning of the slavery of the Jews, God told Abraham that his people +would be held in bondage in Egypt for 400 years (Genesis 15th Chapter, +13th verse). Those 400 years marked the period of Egypt’s most rapid and +substantial progress, as Dr. Schmitz says in writing on ancient Egyptian +history, those years were the most brilliant in Egypt’s record, and the +period at which her art reached its highest point. It is but reasonable to +suppose this to have been so, for the Shepherd, or “white Kings” had +destroyed all of the former brilliancy of Egypt, and did not because they +could not do anything to replace or imitate its grandeur or beauty. The +black people when they regained possession of their Kingdom and again +began to rule, made slaves of the Jews and compelled them to do all the +heavy, dirty, unskilled labor, such as carrying bricks and mortar and +working in the field (Exodus 1st Chapter, 13th and 14th verses). While the +Egyptians turned their attention to science and art and reorganizing and +drilling their army, so as to be able to protect their country against all +nations. As Dr. Schmitz<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> says, the Eastern boundaries of Egypt were well +protected by strong fortresses. This is but natural, because on the East, +the Semitic or white races reigned, and no doubt they were unfriendly to +the Egyptians, or “black” people, because they had expelled the Shepherd +or “white” Kings from their land. Now, when the Egyptians had attained “in +that Age” to the highest degree of intelligence and wisdom, and were +possessed of the greatest human power, God deemed it wise to make His own +Infinite wisdom and power felt over that of human wisdom and power, by +using Moses as an instrument to knock at the door of the Egyptian +government and ask for the release of the enslaved Jews. Moses did not +appear in Egypt by any human authority, or power, but by the authority and +the power of God, for it would have been useless for not only Moses, but +for any nation or number of nations to approach Egypt with hostile +intentions, without God, because Egypt with her wisdom and power had the +world at her mercy. There it required God with His immeasurable wisdom and +power to overcome the wisdom and power of these black Egyptians. The +evidence of God’s power was displayed to the “Pharoah Meneptah,” who is +generally<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> conceded to be the “Pharoah of the Exodus,” by His, “God’s” +instruments, Moses and Aaron who were to appear before the Pharoah and +cast down their rods which turned to serpents (Exodus 7th Chapter, 10th +verse). When they had cast down their rods before Pharoah, and they turned +to serpents, Pharoah called the wise men, or magicians of Egypt with their +enchantments, and they cast down their rods which also became serpents +(Exodus 7th Chapter, 11th and 12th verses). This was the performing of two +miracles, one by God’s power, and one by human power. This vieing with +God, though only for an instance of time is what no white man has had the +power to do since his creation. But, however, God, in order to demonstrate +His supreme power, caused the serpents transformed from the rods of Moses +and Aaron to swallow the serpents transformed from the rods of Pharoah’s +or Egypt’s wise men (Exodus 7-12). This rod and serpent incident was the +beginning of a series of plague miracles (read the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th +Chapters of Exodus), which wrecked the Egyptians’ or black man’s kingdom, +and also destroyed that great power which he had over all other nations +and released the Jews from slavery.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span>The black man’s power, as the first power among the nations had now begun +to decay, and as the black race began to die, as a power among nations, +the white race began to rise to where it had never been before, but this +was 2,500 years after the black man had worked out all the problems of +civilization.</p> + +<p>In reading Revelation, 13th Chapter, 11th verse, of St. John, the Divine, +I am very much impressed by the description of one of his revelations +which God unfolded to him, and which he describes as follows:</p> + +<p>“I behold another beast coming up out of the earth and he had two horns, +like lamb’s, and he spake as a dragon.” Now, to my mind, the foregoing +vision of St. John the Divine, was this very country, the United States of +America, revealed to him ages ago before this country was discovered and +named, the two horns I interpret to be the two great political parties, +that have done so much to corrupt this Government and misrule its people +from their infancy to the present day. Again, the American Government +spake like a dragon when it permitted slavery to exist, especially when +its Constitution says “That ALL MEN WERE BORN FREE AND EQUAL.”</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span>Now, concerning the creating and enthralling of nations, their rise and +fall, that is the will and the work of God. (75th Psalms, 6th and 7th +verses.) (Jeremiah, 27th and 5th verses.) (Daniel, 2nd Chapter, 21st +verse.) (Daniel, 4th Chapter, 17th verse.)</p> + +<p>So, since it is true that the black man is the father of civilization, it +is just as true that the white man is now at the helm, and the big “I AM” +of the civilized world. But the fact remains that he took his civilization +and his position after the black man had created it, and passed from the +stage of action, just as the white man must do at God’s own appointed +time, to make room for some other race, probably the yellow race, Chinese +or Japanese. David, the Psalmist, said: “Egypt was the land of the black +man—Ham not Shem, the white man,” and he further said that the +Tabernacles which were the houses and dwellings from the lowest to the +King’s palaces were Ham’s, and not Shem’s, the white man—(Psalms, 106th +Chapter, 22nd verse; 105th Chapter, 23rd to 27th verse; 78th Chapter, 51st +verse).</p> + +<p>It is easy to understand why the Negro or black man is not identified with +his Egyptian brother; that reason is seldom<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> honestly and earnestly sought +for. The reason is—that the historians, with a very few exceptions, write +from a prejudiced standpoint, together with the fact that they do not give +credit to the Old Testament, if indeed, they study it at all, especially +that part of it which is the most ancient, and beyond all shadow of a +doubt the first and only TRUE account of the origin of mankind it is easy +to understand.</p> + +<p>It is impossible for God to forget that the black man and his land (Egypt) +was the cradle of rescue that rocked and nursed the Son of God in his +first two years of life, when Herod’s decree to destroy all children under +two years of age was issued. It was known that the decree was issued for +the express and only purpose of destroying the infant Christ, but God +chose Egypt, the black man’s land, as a haven of rest and safety during +the life of the displeased and would-be infant murderer, Herod. (Matt., +2nd Chapter.)</p> + +<p>This might be the origin of that old, old saying, “Blood is thicker than +water,” for Jesus in going into Egypt, went among black women and men, who +were the founders of the tribe from which he sprang.</p> + +<p>When God in His infinite wisdom, His great love, justice and mercy, and at +His<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> own appointed time, summons mankind to take his rightful place in the +wavering human line to be rewarded for that smallest of virtues, in +proportion as he for the greatest of virtues, will say to the black man, +who will be found heading the line, “Well done, thou good and faithful +black servant, thou, My instrument, the Father of Civilization.”</p> + + +<p> </p> +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">The End.</span></p> + + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 50%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p> +<h2>COMMENTS ON LECTURE TOURS OF THE WRITER.</h2> + + +<p><i>To Whom It May Concern</i>:</p> + +<p>“I beg to say, after hearing Elder Webb on the subject, that the blood of +the Negro coursed through the veins of Jesus and Solomon. I am frank to +say I have seldom, if ever, enjoyed such an intellectual treat. The +position he assumed as the subject of his lecture touching the Hametic +blood and race is difficult and requires a practical knowledge of Biblical +and historical lore. But I am pleased to say that he not only shows +himself an expert, but the master of the situation, and I commend him to +the ministry and churches of our race of every denomination. Truly,</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">“<span class="smcap">Bishop H. M. Turner</span>.”</span></p> + + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 50%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p> +<h2>COMMENT FROM ONE OF THE LEADING PAPERS OF THE WRITER’S HOME.</h2> + + +<p>“The evidence submitted by Elder Webb tending to prove that the Saviour of +mankind was a black man seems to be sufficient to put those who oppose the +proposition upon their proof. Now that the chain of evidence presented by +Mr. Webb appears so complete, it is strange that none of the delvers in +the Biblical records have not advanced the sensational proposition before. +Not only was Christ a Negro, but it seems that Solomon, who has been held +up through all of the ages as the personification of wisdom, had Ethiopian +blood in his veins also.”—<i>Seattle Daily Times.</i></p> + + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<div class="border"> +<p class="center"><img src="images/img05.jpg" alt="" /></p> +<p class="center">HENRY O. TANNER<br /> +The World-Famous Afro-American Artist</p> + +<p> </p> +<p>Henry O. Tanner is the world famous Afro-American artist. He is the oldest +son of Bishop Tanner of the A. M. E. Church. He was born in Pittsburg, +Penn., but was trained in the public schools of Philadelphia, to which +place his parents moved soon after his birth. His first steps in his life +work were taken in the art schools of Philadelphia from which training he +went to Paris where his genius developed and flowered in the studies of +Benjamin Constant and Julien. In 1895 his “Sabot Maker,” was shown in the +salon exhibit and received friendly treatment from the French critics. +Frenchmen, as a rule, are not too favorably inclined to the works of +foreigners and their appreciation of Tanner is truly significant of the +real value this work—a merit which puts it beyond the limitations of race +and country. In 1896 he exhibited “Daniel in the Lion’s Den,” the first of +a line of religious works with which his fame has been since connected. +This picture received Honorable mention from the French Jury and was +bought by the Pennsylvania Academy.</p> + +<p>Mr. Tanner’s picture, “The Two Disciples at the Tomb,” was purchased by +the Chicago Art Institute for $1,600.</p></div> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p class="center"><img src="images/img06.jpg" alt="In Memory of Paul Lawrence Dunbar Famous African-American Poet" /></p> + + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span></p> +<p class="center">THE COLORED SOLDIERS<br /> +(From Dunbar’s “Lyrics of Lowly Life.”)</p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="table"> +<tr><td>If the muse were mine to tempt it<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And my feeble voice were strong,</span><br /> +If my tongue were trained to measures,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I would sing a stirring song.</span><br /> +I would sing a song heroic<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of those noble sons of Ham,</span><br /> +Of the gallant colored soldiers<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Who fought for Uncle Sam!</span><br /> +In the early days you scorned them,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And with many a flip and flout</span><br /> +Said “These battles are the white man’s.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the whites will fight them out.”</span><br /> +Up the hills you fought and faltered,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">In the vales you strove and bled,</span><br /> +While your ears still heard the thunder<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of the foes’ advancing tread.</span><br /> +<br /> +Then distress fell on the nation,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the flag was drooping low;</span><br /> +Should the dust pollute your banner?<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">No! the nation shouted, No!</span><br /> +So when War, in savage triumph,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Spread abroad his funeral pall—</span><br /> +Then you called the colored soldiers,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And they answered to your call.</span><br /> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span><br /> +And like hounds unleashed and eager<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For the life blood of the prey,</span><br /> +Sprung they forth and bore them bravely<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">In the thickest of the fray,</span><br /> +And where’er the fight was hottest,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Where the bullets fastest fell,</span><br /> +There they pressed unblanched and fearless<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">At the very mouth of hell.</span></td></tr></table> + + +<p>Below are written some of the comments on his poetry and prose:</p> + +<p>Dr. Adams, editor of “The Advance,” says: “Dunbar was a genius bound in +ebony.”</p> + +<p>Former President Theodore Roosevelt said: “I was a great admirer of his +poetry and his prose.”</p> + + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<div class="border"> +<p class="center"><img src="images/img07.jpg" alt="" /></p> +<p class="center">P. KA ISAKA SEME<br /> +A NATIVE BORN AFRICAN</p> + +<p> </p> +<p>P. Ka Isaka Seme, who delivered such a wonderful oration on the subject, +“<span class="smcap">The Regeneration of Africa</span>,” which oration is reproduced from the Colored +American Magazine of New York (June, 1906). This oration substantiates me +in my article wherein I claim that the black man was the FATHER OF +CIVILIZATION.</p></div> + + +<p> </p><p> <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span></p> +<p class="title">The Regeneration of Africa</p> +<p class="center">Curtis Medals Oration, First Prize, April 5, 1906, Columbia University</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="dropcap"><span class="caps">I</span> have chosen to speak to you on this occasion upon “The Regeneration of +Africa.” I am an African, and I set my pride in my race over against a +hostile public opinion. Men have tried to compare races on the basis of +some equality. In all the works of nature, equality, if by it we mean +identity, is an impossible dream! Search the universe! You will find no +two units alike. The scientists tell us there are no two cells, no two +atoms, identical. Nature has bestowed upon each a peculiar individuality, +an exclusive patent—from the great giants of the forest to the tenderest +blade. Catch in your hand, if you please, the gentle flakes of snow. Each +is a perfect gem, a new creation; it shines in its own glory—a work of +art different from all of its aerial companions. Man, the crowning +achievement of nature, defies analysis. He is a mystery through all ages +and for all time. The races of mankind are composed of free and unique +individuals. An attempt to compare them on the basis of equality can never +be finally satisfactory. Each is self. My thesis stands on this truth; +time has proved it. In all races, genius is like a spark, which, concealed +in the bosom of a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span> flint, bursts forth at the summoning stroke. It may +arise anywhere and in any race.</p> + +<p>I would ask you not to compare Africa to Europe or to any other continent. +I make this request not from any fear that such comparison might bring +humiliation upon Africa. The reason I have stated,—a common standard is +impossible! Come with me to the ancient capital of Egypt, Thebes, the city +of one hundred gates. The grandeur of its venerable ruins and the gigantic +proportions of its architecture reduced to insignificance the boasted +monuments of other nations. The pyramids of Egypt are structures to which +the world presents nothing comparable. The mighty monuments seem to look +with disdain on every other work of human art and to vie with nature +herself. All the glory of Egypt belongs to Africa and her people. These +monuments are the indestructible memorials of their great and original +genius. It is not through Egypt alone that Africa claims such unrivalled +historic achievements. I could have spoken of the pyramids of Ethiopia, +which, though inferior in size to those of Egypt, far surpass them in +architectural beauty; their sepulchres which evince the highest purity of +taste, and of many prehistoric ruins in other parts of Africa. In such<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span> +ruins Africa is like the golden sun, that, having sunk beneath the western +horizon, still plays upon the world which he sustained and enlightened in +his career.</p> + +<p>Justly the world now demands—</p> + +<p class="poem">“Whither is fled the visionary gleam,<br /> +Where is it now, the glory and the dream?”</p> + +<p>Oh, for that historian who, with the open pen of truth, will bring to +Africa’s claim the strength of written proof. He will tell of a race whose +onward tide was often swelled with tears, but in whose heart bondage has +not quenched the fire of former years. He will write that in these later +days when Earth’s noble ones are named, she has a roll of honor too, of +whom she is not ashamed. The giant is awakening! From the four corners of +the earth Africa’s sons, who have been proved through fire and sword, are +marching to the future’s golden door bearing the records of deeds of valor +done.</p> + +<p>Mr. Calhoun, I believe, was the most philosophical of all the +slave-holders. He said once that if he could find a black man who could +understand the Greek syntax, he would then consider their race human, and +his attitude toward enslaving them would therefore change. What might have +been the sensation kindled by the Greek syntax<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span> in the mind of the famous +Southerner, I have so far been unable to discover; but oh, I envy the +moment that was lost! And woe to the tongues that refused to tell the +truth! If any such were among the now living, I could show him among black +men of pure African blood those who could repeat the Koran from memory, +skilled in Latin, Greek and Hebrew,—Arabic and Chaldais—men great in +wisdom and profound knowledge—one professor of philosophy in a celebrated +German university; one corresponding member of the French Academy of +Sciences, who regularly transmitted to that society meteorological +observations, and hydrographical journals and papers on botany and +geology; another whom many ages call “The Wise,” whose authority Mahomet +himself frequently appealed to in the Koran in support of his own +opinion—men of wealth and active benevolence, those whose distinguished +talents and reputation have made them famous in the cabinet and in the +field, officers of artillery in the great armies of Europe, generals and +lieutenant generals in the armies of Peter the Great in Russia and +Napoleon in France, presidents of free republics, kings of independent +nations which have burst their way to liberty by their own vigor. There +are many<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span> other Africans who have shown marks of genius and high character +sufficient to redeem their race from the charges which I am now +considering.</p> + +<p>Ladies and gentlemen, the day of great exploring expeditions in Africa is +over! Man knows his home now in a sense never known before. Many great and +holy men have evinced a passion for the day you are now witnessing—their +prophetic vision shot through many unborn centuries to this very hour. +“Men shall run to and fro,” said Daniel, “and knowledge shall increase +upon the earth.” Oh, how true! See the triumph of human genius today! +Science has searched out the deep things of nature, surprised the secrets +of the most distant stars, disentombed the memorials of everlasting hills, +taught the lightning to speak, the vapors to toil and the winds to +worship—spanned the sweeping rivers, tunneled the longest mountain +range—made the world a vast whispering gallery, and has brought foreign +nations into one civilized family. This all-powerful contact says even to +the most backward race, you cannot remain where you are, you cannot fall +back you must advance! A great century has come upon us. No race +possessing the inherent capacity to survive can resist and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span> remain +unaffected by this influence of contact and intercourse, the backward with +the advanced. This influence constitutes the very essence of efficient +progress and of civilization.</p> + +<p>From these heights of the twentieth century I again ask you to cast your +eyes south of the Desert of Sahara. If you could go with me to the +oppressed Congos and ask, what does it mean, that now, for liberty, they +fight like men and die like martyrs; if you would go with me to +Bechuanaland, face their council of Headmen and ask what motives caused +them recently to decree so emphatically that alcoholic drinks shall not +enter their country—visit their king, Khama, ask for what cause he leaves +the gold and ivory palace of his ancestors, its mountain strongholds and +all its august ceremony, to wander daily from village to village through +all his kingdom, without a guard or any decoration of his rank—a preacher +of industry and education, and an apostle of the new order of things; if +you would ask Menelik what means this that Abyssinia is now looking across +the ocean—oh, if you could read the letters that come to us from +Zululand—you, too, would be convinced that the elevation of the African +race is evidently a part of the new order of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span> things that belong to this +new and powerful period.</p> + +<p>The African already recognizes his anomalous position and desires a +change. The brighter day is rising upon Africa. Already I seem to see her +chains dissolved, her desert plains red with harvest, her Ayssinia and her +Zululand the seats of science and religion, reflecting the glory of the +rising sun from the spires of their churches and universities. Her Congo +and her Gambia whitened with commerce, her crowded cities sending forth +the hum of business, and all her sons employed in advancing the victories +of peace—greater and more abiding than the spoils of war.</p> + +<p>Yes, the regeneration of Africa belongs to this new and powerful period! +By this term regeneration I wish to be understood to mean the entrance +into a new life, embracing the diverse phases of a higher, complex +existence. The basic factor which assures their regeneration resides in +the awakened race-consciousness. This gives them a clear perception of +their elemental needs and of their undeveloped powers. It therefore must +lead them to the attainment of that higher and advanced standard of life.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span>The African people, although not a strictly homogeneous race, possess a +common fundamental sentiment which is everywhere manifest, crystalizing +itself into one common controlling idea. Conflicts and strife are rapidly +disappearing before the fusing force of this enlightened perception of the +true intertribal relation, which relation should subsist among a people +with a common destiny. Agencies of a social, economic and religious +advance tell of a new spirit which, acting as a leavening ferment, shall +raise the anxious and aspiring mass to the level of their ancient glory. +The ancestral greatness, the unimpaired genius, and the recuperative power +of the race, its irrepressibility, which assures its permanence, +constitute the African’s greatest source of inspiration. He has refused to +camp forever on the borders of the industrial world; having learned that +knowledge is power, he is educating his children. You find them in +Edinburgh, in Cambridge, and in the great schools of Germany. These return +to their country like arrows, to drive darkness from the land. I hold that +this industrial and educational initiative, and his untiring devotion to +these activities must be regarded as positive evidences of this process of +his regeneration.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span>The regeneration of Africa means that a new and unique civilization is +soon to be added to the world. The African is not a proletarian in the +world of science and art. He has precious creations of his own, of ivory, +of copper and of gold, fine, plaited willow-ware and weapons of superior +workmanship. Civilization resembles an organic being in its +development—it is born, it perishes, and it can propogate itself. More +particularly, it resembles a plant, it takes root in the teeming earth, +and when the seeds fall in other soils new varieties sprout up. The most +essential departure of this new civilization is that it shall be +thoroughly spiritual and humanistic—indeed a regeneration moral and +eternal!</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">O Africa!</span></p> + +<p class="poem">Like some great century plant that shall bloom<br /> +In ages hence, we watch thee; in our dream<br /> +See in thy swamps the Prospero of our stream;<br /> +Thy doors unlocked, where knowledge in her tomb<br /> +Hath lain innumerable years in gloom.<br /> +Then shalt thou, waking with that morning gleam<br /> +Shine as thy sister lands with equal beam.</p> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Black Man, the Father of +Civilization, by James Morris Webb + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BLACK MAN, FATHER OF CIVILIZATION *** + +***** This file should be named 39509-h.htm or 39509-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/9/5/0/39509/ + +Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Black Man, the Father of Civilization + Proven by Biblical History + +Author: James Morris Webb + +Release Date: April 22, 2012 [EBook #39509] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BLACK MAN, FATHER OF CIVILIZATION *** + + + + +Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive.) + + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: JAMES MORRIS WEBB, A. M. + +Evangelist of the Church of God + +(Acts 20-28, Biblical)] + + + + + The Black Man + + The Father of Civilization + + Proven by Biblical History + + + AUTHOR: James Morris Webb, A. M. + + + Copyright Applied For + + + + +PREFACE. + + +I have many objects in presenting this book to the public. + +_First_: I love my race regardless of the prejudice against her, the +unenviable position she holds, and the things she is falsely said to be +guilty of. + +I demonstrate my love for her by launching this book before the public as +somewhat of a defense against the prejudice of ancient, as well as modern +historical writers and lecturers, who have misrepresented her, and took +from her the good deeds and honors that are justly due her. + +_Secondly_: I realize that my race has had defenders, and has some now, +men of my race and men of other races. But I am simply presenting this +book as an humble race defender, in connection with the body of race +defenders, and if my theory in this book is accepted as one of the little +fingers of this splendid body, I will feel that I have accomplished some +results and thus portrayed the story of "The Widow's Mite"--she gave all +she had, and I contribute likewise. + +_Thirdly_: To appreciate my argument, the reader had best have a Bible at +his finger tips so as to examine my references and compare them with my +statements, which I make wholly and solely upon the authorities found in +the Bible, which in turn is the real and only authority on ancient history +(again my authority is not inspired in the slightest degree with malice or +hatred for the white race). My profession as a Minister of the Gospel of +Jesus Christ would not permit me to defend in the name of justice, +harboring malice and hatred or any ill feeling toward my white brethren. I +am acting with that meek and humble spirit and with a gigantic pride in my +race, which I hope, pleases God. + +J. M. WEBB. + + + + +[Illustration: ABRAHAM LINCOLN + +FREDERICK DOUGLAS + +DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON] + + +THREE OF THE GREATEST MEN IN AMERICAN HISTORY + +Frederick Douglas, the thunder-bolt, whose mighty peals of thunder awoke +the sympathy of the Christian men and women of this country in behalf of +his enslaved and suffering people. + +Abraham Lincoln, the flash of lightning, who, like a streak of light from +Heaven giving hope to the black people, struck the shackles from their +hands and left them lying shattered at their feet. + +Dr. Booker T. Washington, who is nobly directing a never-to-be-forgotten +battle for that moral and industrial education, which Douglas and Lincoln +made it possible for them to obtain. + + + + +INTRODUCTION + + +The Bible gives the first and only true account of the origin of mankind. +It is the only book containing an accurate record of the progress of man +toward civilization, and it is the indispensable reference of all +searchers after the real facts of the birth of humanity and its progress +toward the civilization of today; beginning with his creation, it is the +only authentic record of man; authentic because it is first hand, not a +copy of something else or a scientific or literary review, but a +dispassionate record of man's creation and progress, untrimmed, unshaped +and unvarnished, to suit prejudice. It would not be a complete record if +it did not show with the rest of them the origin of the black man and "Woe +for all these pinnacle thieves"--it shows that he, the "black man" is the +"father of civilization." + +The black man has been misrepresented by prejudiced historians and +lecturers. It has been and is now quoted that Ham, the father of the black +man, was cursed by his father, Noah. Now, in regard to this incident let +us take the Biblical record for it, and anyone not totally blind with +prejudice will be convinced by reading in the Book of Genesis the 9th +Chapter from the 20th to the 27th verse inclusive, that Noah did not, "for +he could not curse" Ham, although he did in a fit of intoxication +pronounce a curse on Canaan, the son of Ham. In passing, I might mention +that Canaan was never inconvenienced by the curse of Noah, because he was +the Father of seven prosperous nations, foremost among them were the +Canaanites, Phoenicians and Sidonians. The Sidonians sprang from Sidon, +who was the first son of Canaan, according to Genesis 10th Chapter 15th +verse. These same Sidonians are the men "descended from black men" whom +Solomon ordered Hiram of Tyre to engage to do the skilled hewing and +designing of the timber work on Solomon's temple--Solomon declaring that +these Sidonians, "black men" were the only men possessed with anywhere +near sufficient skill to take charge of and successfully complete the +artistic timber work on "His" Solomon's temple. First Kings 5th Chapter +6th verse speaks very plainly of this fact. Solomon knew the black race +was a superior, not an inferior race. He married Pharoah's daughter--see +1st Kings, 3rd Chapter 1st verse; 7th Chapter 8th verse, also the 9th +Chapter and 16th verse. Solomon's wife might have been of as dark skin or +even as black as he was, for history shows that Egypt had two full blooded +Ethiopian Pharoahs just before and during the reign of Solomon, according +to Herodotus, the names of these two Ethiopians were Sabaco or "Sebichos" +and Sethos, so Solomon surely got an Ethiopian "Negro or black" woman for +a wife. This naturally increased the proportion of Negro blood in the +veins of the future King of the Jews. Viewing the progress of the +immediate descendants of Ham we learn that a curse laid upon one by a +mortal of that day was as foolish and ineffective as it is in this, the +story about this curse, also the story of the black man who contended that +a black skin and woolly hair is a disgrace, has, according to the Bible, +no foundation. Speaking of black skin, the greatest brain work and wisdom +ever given to this world was given by men of black skins, or at least in +whose veins the greatest portion of blood was Ethiopian or Negro blood. As +to this assertion and King Solomon, see "Songs of Solomon 1st Chapter 6th +verse." Solomon's dark skin should cause no surprise, because his mother, +Hittite, was also the widow of Uriah (see 2nd Samuels 12th Chapter 9th +and 10th verses). The Hittites are the descendants of Heth and Heth was +the second son of Canaan (see Genesis 10th Chapter 15th verse). + +As to the woolly hair, Jesus, the Blessed Saviour of Mankind, will have +His head covered with woolly hair when he comes to judge the world, +(Daniel 7th Chapter 9th and 10th verses). Now, if Daniel's prophecy is +true that when Christ left this earth he had woolly hair, he naturally +will return with woolly hair, and the pictures of Him today are an +erroneous conception of Him, by the artists. This grand old book the +Bible, does not show that God ever turned a man black to disgrace him for +his sins, or anything else, but this same Bible does show that God's power +did turn a man white to disgrace him because of his sins, and said that +his seed would be likewise forever. Facts are stubborn things and often +very disagreeable, sometimes even sickening, and by reading carefully the +5th Chapter of the 2nd Kings, 25th, 26th and 27th verses, many of our +highly civilized brethren "whose ancient ancestors disgraced them" will +suffer an alarming fit of nausea. Among the many low cowardly things that +have been said and done against the Negro during this Christian era, one +poor benighted individual published a "joke" in book form, in which he +claims that, the Negro is a beast, the poor fellow tries to be serious, +and no doubt thinks he is offering at least some proof of his assertion. +The poor fellow of course, receives some sympathy, and would no doubt +receive as much as any of the rest of his class, were it not for the fact +that he holds a Professorship in one of our leading American Christian +Universities. Of course the disgust, if any, is felt for those responsible +for placing the poor devil in such a position, and the real and well +placed sympathy is for the student, who must suffer because of this +fellow. The fact remains, however, that regardless of what has been said +and done against the Negro and of whatever might be said or done against +him in future, he is the ONLY man who can trace himself back through the +ages to his origin, and find monumental evidence of his unequaled +greatness, his prowess, the laurels and great honors he won, the things he +created and perfected which have a direct influence on our civilization of +today. + +The "black man" I boldly assert "was the Father of civilization," born in +the land of Egypt, and the different branches of Science and Art were +simply transmitted to other races, which, as the ages have rolled by have +only been enlarged and to some extent improved upon. Even the modern +American Negro has proven that he is original, for instance--as a +Tonsorial Artist he has no superiors and no Negro was ever known to enter +a "Barber College" to learn the trade. Negroes inherit the sweetest, most +musical voices, and if you have not heard a Negro quartette or chorus +after they have arranged the harmony of a piece they are to sing, you have +not heard what is best and sweetest in vocal music. As instrumentalists +"not forgetting the many others" I simply mention Blind Tom, and Blind +Boone, the fame of these two men needs no comment. They only displayed +that talent handed down to them through centuries by their black +ancestors. As for the Negro being original, why the Negro has given great +America the only claim she ever did or ever will have to a National music. + +God honored the black man by allowing some of his Ethiopian blood to flow +in the veins of His only Son Jesus Christ, and I unhesitatingly assert +that Jesus would in America be classed a NEGRO. I make this assertion +only on the authority of the Bible, according to which Jesus was born out +of the tribe of Judah. Judah had only five children and they were males, +(1st Chron. 2nd ch. and 4th v.), three by his first wife and two by his +second wife (1st Chron. 2nd ch. 3rd and 4th vs.), and both of his wives +were descendants of Canaan, a black man who was the son of Ham (Genesis +10th ch. 6th v.). Tamar, Judah's second wife, bore him two of these sons +whose names were Phares and Zarah (1st Chron. 2nd ch. and 4th v.), these +two names appear in the genealogy of Jesus Christ in the Book of Matthew +(1st Chapter 3rd verse), so it is no trouble to see that Judah of whom +Christ was to come, started out by presenting to the world children of +Canaanite women who were Hamite descendants. Now, Virgin Mary, of whom +Christ was born was beyond all doubt a woman out of the tribe of Judah, +and every Bible reference proclaims that Jesus was to spring from this +tribe of Judah (Genesis 49-10, Heb. 7-14, Rev. 5-5th). Our beloved St. +Paul tells us in (Romans 1-3) that Jesus was of the seed of David +according to the flesh. David is the 10th man named from Judah in the +genealogy of Jesus Christ (Matthew 1st Chapter, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th +verses). Added to this David's great, great grandfather "Booz" was born of +the woman Rahab, who was a direct descendant of Ham (Matthew 1st Chapter +5th verse). This also shows that David, one of God's greatest soldiers, +was one who most successfully led his people and one who had Negro blood +in his veins. Bible history is full of honors for the Black Man, Jethro +the Ethiopian or Negro father-in-law of Moses, who was the author who +first employed that, which is today, our judicial system, considerably +twisted and revised to meet the changing conditions of civilization +(Exodus 18th Chapter). This chapter tells of Jethro's visit to Moses, and +how he gave Moses the foundation of what is today our system of graded +courts for pronouncing judgments. Again Moses "The Hebrew Emancipator" was +named by a black woman "Pharoah's daughter"--she said she called him Moses +because she drew him out of the water (Exodus 2-10) and besides black men +educated Moses. At any rate he received what education he had in the +schools of the black people of Egypt (Acts 7th 22nd), so there is nothing +remarkable in the fact that Dr. Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, W. +S. Scarborough and many other Negro or black men occupy places among the +foremost and most eminent educators of the world, and why should they not? +They are descended from fathers who ruled Egypt centuries ago and with +their great wisdom layed the foundation of learning. + + + + +[Illustration: BISHOP H. M. TURNER, D.D., L.L.D. + +The Most Fearless Defender the Afro-Americans Have] + + +BISHOP H. M. TURNER, D.D., L.L.D. + +Bishop H. M. Turner, born at Newbury, South Carolina, February 1st, 1833, +is the senior Bishop of the A. M. E. Church. He has been Bishop for +thirty-one years, and is quoted as the walking encyclopedia of Methodism, +and for this cause the last general conference that convened at Norfolk, +Va., on May, 1908, voted unanimously for the good Bishop to be the +historian of the African-Methodist Episcopal Church. It is to be +remembered that Bishop Turner was the first colored man to be a +commissioned officer in the United States Army, which appointment he +received from President Lincoln. The Bishop was twice a member of the +Georgia Legislature, and also the first of his church to be elected Bishop +to Africa. + + + + +THE BLACK MAN + + + + +FIRST CHAPTER. + + +"That time changes all things" is a saying so old and so true as to admit +of no argument. It is exemplified in so many different ways as to require +no comment, and yet when we hear the phrase used glibly and thoughtlessly, +every day, it is but natural to wonder if the one who uses it realizes +what he is saying, or rather, if he knows what those few commonplace words +mean, when used to form that sentence. + +It is a foregone conclusion that he does not. He never stopped, "he, of +this enlightened age, I mean," long enough to examine even a little of the +abundance of indisputable proof that the saying "Time changes all things" +applies to things and conditions, seldom if ever present, to his own +narrow mind, and far away and beyond even his meaner and low prejudiced +influence. If he did, his retrospective mood, would, before carrying him +back to the very beginning, suffer something of a shock, and his attitude +would change. Instead of delighting in history, modern, medieval and +ancient, his attitude would change so noticeably that an observer would +imagine that his only interest was in tearing down and falsifying facts, +and concealing records that he could not falsify. When we hear or read the +sayings of some of our "misnamed" great men, but in reality disgustingly +conspicuous public figures, we are fully justified in making the charge of +falsifying and concealing such facts as they are not really ignorant of. +One of these conspicuous public characters delights in making the +assertion that the Hamite Ethiopian or Negro never amounted to anything, +or possessed anything, never occupied an eminence, save to which the +Semitic or white man had dragged or driven him up to. If ignorance alone +was responsible for this glaring falsehood, a great deal of sympathy would +go out to those who make the statement as well as those who believe it to +be true because of their ignorance. As harsh as it may seem sympathy would +be wasted for a great deal of the self asserted enlightenment of today is +but egotism. Much of the so-called wisdom is self praise for successfully +concealing, or at least surrounding historical facts with such mystery as +to place the descendants of Shem upon an eminence which is not justly his +and makes him in his own opinion appear much larger than what he really +is. And yet with all the egotism, some knowledge of the true origin of +mankind exists, and it is this knowledge that causes the fasifying and +hiding as much as possible the true historical records, especially of the +black man. It cannot be said that the learned historical writers, the +great Divines, Theological students and lecturers of today are ignorant of +the history of Ham, the son of Noah, and his descendants, such as Nimrod, +the founder of the great ancient city of Babylon, and also Menes the first +King of Egypt and the founder of the great ancient city of Memphis. + +Ridpath says that the traditions of antiquity points to Memphis and +Babylon as the fountains of human wisdom. If those above-named are +ignorant of the history of the last-named, they are doing the world a +great injustice in assuming the position of teacher and leader. If they +are familiar with the history of the races and the deeds of men, they will +no doubt have for them and their kind good and sufficient reasons for +making false and misleading statements as to some historical records, and +totally forgetting or demeaning others. + +An early Queen of Egypt was a descendant of the Ethiopian or Negro race. +This is conceded by some of the modern writers; some of them going so far +as to say that her skin was very black, and a few of them acknowledge that +it was this black queen who placed the first fleet of war ships on the +river Nile. They have no doubt traced this woman back to where they are +satisfied that she was descended in a direct lineal line from Zipporah, +the black and Ethiopian wife of Moses. We read very little of these two +women, because modern writers seek to obscure them, and our ministers of +the gospel never preach or lecture on that part of the Bible in which they +are mentioned. WHY? Because, if they do they must give credit to black +people. In this connection, I do not speak of Biblical history only. Were +it not for the fact that the dimensions of this book would be extended far +beyond what was intended, I could begin even with Hannibal, the +Carthagenian General, and record the accomplishments of black men without +the intervening of any long periods of time, down to the time of Alexander +Dumas, Toussant L'Overture, and Alexander Sergievitch Pouskin, +Russo-African poet. I could do more, I could come into the borders of this +Republic and beginning with Crispus Octikus, or Alexander Hamilton--record +the accomplishments of these same black descendants of Ham, down to this +day. This modern record would contain many references to both the war of +Independence and the war of the Rebellion. It would also mention a great +many black men who can never forget El Caney and San Juan Hill. Besides +the heroes of war, modern history is replete with the names of black men +famous in peace for their accomplishments in science and letters of art. +Space will not permit me to dwell upon these men and their accomplishments +and the towering obstacles in spite of which they succeeded. I could not +fail, however, to mention Frederick Douglas who was one of the greatest +statesmen America ever had, even though he was born a slave. Dr. Booker T. +Washington was also born a slave, and is one of the greatest educators the +world has ever known. As to the many other great things black men have +done and are doing, I cannot fail to mention the north pole, for, if human +beings have stood on the spot claimed as the north pole, the black man was +preceded by no one. I speak of Mr. Matt Henson, the Negro, who, if indeed, +the pole ever was reached, was one of the first of the only two "to date" +to reach it. + + + + +[Illustration: PROF. W. S. SCARBOROUGH] + +Prof. W. S. Scarborough is head of the Classical Department of Wilberforce +University of Ohio, and Vice-President of the same institution. He, too, +is a great writer in defense of the Afro-American race. Here are some of +his remarks in his master-piece, "Race Integrity": (See next page.) + + +"The truth is that the term 'Caucasian' has little or no meaning as it is +now used. The word itself is a conventional term given at the first by +Blumenbach to designate what he considered the highest type of the human +family, shown by a skull from Mount Caucasus. When we attempt to trace +those who would claim the name as an expression of their superiority we +find the type has disappeared. There is no pure specimen now in existence. +And if we ask what is 'white' we can only say, 'that it is a term used to +designate the absence of color'--that is all, and no sign whatever of +'race integrity.' We have already indicated that science and investigation +point to the fact that primitive man was not white. It is no new theory, +but it has seemed convenient for the Saxon to let it rest as much as +possible in discrete oblivion. Bishop H. M. Turner of the African +Methodist Episcopal church has often promulgated it in his own inimitable +way, and Moncure D. Conway has also declared that the white people of the +world today are only a reflex leprosy and that the natural color is brown +or black." + + + + +SECOND CHAPTER. + +HIS FIRST HOME + + +God but faintly revealed the puzzle of civilization to Noah and his three +sons, Shem, Ham and Japhet (Genesis 9th Chapter 1st seven verses), and it +became their duty to start to work on the first moves of the puzzle, as +well as to create nations. He, who would begin from the first, moves and +works the matter out to perfection. + +Ham, the father of the black man, located in Africa. Africa was his +homestead, so to speak. David, the Psalmist, credited Ham with this +territory in the 105th Psalm 23rd and 27th verses, and also in the 106th +Psalm 22nd verse. Now, if this is not true, and we reject it on the ground +of not being sufficient proof of the black man's first and original home, +we can on quite as good ground reject any and every other part of the +Bible, for what I here state is no wild imagination, but FACTS taken from +the Bible. + +Cush, Mizriam, Phut and Canaan were the first sons of Ham (Genesis 10th +Chapter, 6th verse), and these four sons including Nimrod, the grandson +of Ham, were the first to start work on the problem of civilization; in a +word they were the pioneers and the very pillars of civilized governments. + +Cush located in South Egypt on the River Nile. He became the father of the +Ethiopians as well as the father of the Cushites through Nimrod who +located on the Southern part of the Euphrates River. It is to be +remembered that Nimrod is the founder of the Babylonian kingdom (Genesis +10th Chapter, 10th verse.) Mizriam located on the upper part of the River +Nile, and he became the father of the Egyptians. Phut located in the +Northern part of Africa. Canaan located in the land known as the old +Palestine country, which is modern Turkey. Canaan became the father of the +Canaanites (Genesis 10th Chapter, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th verses). +According to the Bible the above is the exact location of the first sons +of Ham, and the question which naturally follows is, "Was civilization +born in their land and given birth by Ham's first offspring?" It is +conceded by John Clark Ridpath and a few other writers on ancient history +that the Egyptians were the fathers of civilization, according to the +chronology of Manetho, an Egyptian priest. Egypt was founded in the year +B. C. 3892, and Menes was the first mortal King. The all important +question now arises, "Were the Egyptians descendants of black men, or were +they descendants of white men? Were they descendants of Ham or Shem?" It +is well known that students claim to be divided in their opinion as to the +original stock from which the ancient Egyptians came. Ridpath, among +others, says they were neither Semitic nor Negro, but concludes his +remarks on the origin of the Egyptians by saying that the ancient +Egyptians were considered a branch of that part of the Cushite family, +which settled in Asia. Probably the little matter of the Cushites being +the grand-children of Ham slipped Ridpath's mind, else his statements +would not have been so conflicting, because he just says that they were +not Negroes, but ends his argument by saying that they were a branch of +the Cushite family of Asia. + +It requires no laborious research to establish the facts that Cush was the +father of all Cushite nations. He was also the first son of Ham (Genesis +10th Chapter, 6th verse). Now then, if the Ethiopians and all other +Cushite nations who sprang from this first son of Ham were not Negroes, +will some of our historians omit the word "probably," so much used by +them, and say _what_ they were. It is fair to assume that with their +boasted intelligence and superior brain power, by this time they would +have been able to search out and connect at least some of the many facts, +and plain, indisputable records in the Bible which leaves no room for +doubt or "probably." + +We learn from the Bible that Ham is the father of the African family; the +Ethiopian is the darkest or blackest tribe of the Hamites. Cush was the +founder or father of this tribe. Moses selected his wife from this black +or Ethiopian tribe (Numbers 12th Chapter, 1st verse). It must be plain to +any one who will read the parts referred to in the Bible, that Ridpath's +contention that the Egyptians sprang from the Cushites was the wrong +avenue to escape the blood of the Negro, or their relation to the black +man's family. I believe, however, that Ridpath wrote in good faith for the +majority of the historical writers claim that the Egyptians descended from +a white race, notwithstanding they admit that the Old Testament gives the +truest, the most complete and reliable record on the origin of the +Egyptians of any other book, so it is not unnatural to believe that their +opinions are influenced by racial prejudice. + +Now it is true that the Bible contains the only authentic, and certainly +the most ancient record of not only the Egyptians, but of all mankind, and +I CAN and will PROVE by it that the Egyptian--Hamite--sprang from Mizriam. + +According to the Biblical Gazette, the word "Egypt" is derived from the +word Mizriam, and this word "Mizriam" was the name of one of the first +sons of Ham (Genesis 10th Chapter, 6th verse). By the word "Egypt" being +coined from the word "Mizriam," it strengthens my contention that the +Egyptian was descended from the black man. I will now dig down further +into the rich earth of proof for more enlightenment out of the Book of +Truth. By viewing the ancient Bible map of Africa and Asia, which map can +be found in the back of the New Testament, one can readily pick out the +spots upon which Shem, Ham and Japheth first located. You will notice that +Mizriam, the second son of Ham, and the accredited father of the Egyptians +located on the very spot, so to speak, where the great City of Memphis was +built by Menes, the first King of Egypt. Again you will notice that all +the names within African borders are names of the sons of Ham, Shem and +his offspring, located in Asia. Perhaps a better way to locate Ham, Shem +and Japheth and their first offspring is first to read the 10th and 11th +Chapters of Genesis, then locate their names on the map, and it will be +seen that not a Shemite, or white man, originally located in Africa. All +of the white men located in Asia, and according to the Bible white men +never began to travel in Africa until Abraham's time, B. C. 1921. The +Egyptians lived in a high state of civilization near 2,000 years before +Abraham's first visit to Egypt, and the appearance of white people was a +circus and a curiosity to the black people. Abraham realized this fact and +commanded his wife to represent herself as his sister, because as he said, +"she was fair to look upon," white (Genesis 12th Chapter, 11th, 12th and +13th verses). This would indicate that the Egyptians were not white, and I +will say without fear of my assertion being disproven, that until after +the time of Abraham, the Egyptians were a simon pure black race. Shortly +after Abraham's visit, the Shemitic or white travellers began to pour into +Egypt to such an extent that the Egyptians began inter-marrying with them, +and of course, this inter-marrying had its effect of contaminating the +pure Negro blood, and this inter-marrying was the cause of the black man, +or full blooded Egyptian losing the power of control in the Kingdom. In +other words--this is the loop through which the Shepherd or white or +Shemitic kings slipped through and took possession of the Egyptian +kingdom. + + + + +[Illustration: DR. W. E. BURGHARDT DUBOIS] + +Dr. W. E. Burghardt DuBois is the most scholarly speaker and writer of the +Afro-American race. He is the author of the book "Souls of Black Folk," +which is a marvellous book. On the following page are some of the phrases +from his famous address to the Social Study Clubs of Chicago University. + + +February 13th, 1907, on Education and Civilization: + +"The doing of the world's work is a great duty and a great privilege. It +is a thing not to be aimed at but to be aimed beyond. Just so soon as a +nation or a country can put its foot upon this satisfaction of the lower +wants and step upward to the greater aspirations of human brotherhood and +the broader ideals of civilization, just so soon the real building of +civilization begins. It seems to me, therefore, that the students of +Chicago University and they that teach them, ought especially, on every +occasion to impress this broader aspect of the race problem. That instead +of putting it in its narrower, nastier channel, instead of stooping to +listen to men, who themselves represent what is lowest and least in our +national organization, that you should strive in every way to realize +yourselves and to show others that this great broad question of humanity +is not a question of petty crime, not a question of so many bales of +cotton, not a question even of mere industrial development, but is a +question of human aspiration, and that if here in America, on the very +fore front of present advance, it is possible to murder the aspiration of +10,000,000 of men, then America is not yet civilized." + + + + +THIRD CHAPTER. + +HIS RULE IN EGYPT + + +Dr. Leonhard Schmitz, Ph. D., LL. D., F. R., S. E., says in his work on +ancient Egyptian history, that these Hyksos or Shepherd Kings were Semite +people. "White," of course, and they comprised the 15th, 16th and 17th +dynasties, which covered 511 years. Now, during this period, Jacob and his +twelve sons and their families moved from Canaan to Egypt, and other +Semite or whites from Asia did likewise, because the white man had begun +to rule Egypt. At the 18th Dynasty, however, fortune turned against the +white rulers of Egypt, and the black men or the Negroes regained +possession of their country, and banished the whites from their land, +except the Jews, whom they held as slaves. They reorganized the Kingdom +with their own blood, "the blood of the Negro." Aahmas was the first King +after the whites were driven out, and his wife was Nefruari, the Ethiopian +Princess, greatly celebrated for her dusky charms, her wealth and her +accomplishments. The beginning of this reorganization of a period is +recorded in the 1st Chapter of the Book of Exodus, which shows that at the +beginning of the slavery of the Jews, God told Abraham that his people +would be held in bondage in Egypt for 400 years (Genesis 15th Chapter, +13th verse). Those 400 years marked the period of Egypt's most rapid and +substantial progress, as Dr. Schmitz says in writing on ancient Egyptian +history, those years were the most brilliant in Egypt's record, and the +period at which her art reached its highest point. It is but reasonable to +suppose this to have been so, for the Shepherd, or "white Kings" had +destroyed all of the former brilliancy of Egypt, and did not because they +could not do anything to replace or imitate its grandeur or beauty. The +black people when they regained possession of their Kingdom and again +began to rule, made slaves of the Jews and compelled them to do all the +heavy, dirty, unskilled labor, such as carrying bricks and mortar and +working in the field (Exodus 1st Chapter, 13th and 14th verses). While the +Egyptians turned their attention to science and art and reorganizing and +drilling their army, so as to be able to protect their country against all +nations. As Dr. Schmitz says, the Eastern boundaries of Egypt were well +protected by strong fortresses. This is but natural, because on the East, +the Semitic or white races reigned, and no doubt they were unfriendly to +the Egyptians, or "black" people, because they had expelled the Shepherd +or "white" Kings from their land. Now, when the Egyptians had attained "in +that Age" to the highest degree of intelligence and wisdom, and were +possessed of the greatest human power, God deemed it wise to make His own +Infinite wisdom and power felt over that of human wisdom and power, by +using Moses as an instrument to knock at the door of the Egyptian +government and ask for the release of the enslaved Jews. Moses did not +appear in Egypt by any human authority, or power, but by the authority and +the power of God, for it would have been useless for not only Moses, but +for any nation or number of nations to approach Egypt with hostile +intentions, without God, because Egypt with her wisdom and power had the +world at her mercy. There it required God with His immeasurable wisdom and +power to overcome the wisdom and power of these black Egyptians. The +evidence of God's power was displayed to the "Pharoah Meneptah," who is +generally conceded to be the "Pharoah of the Exodus," by His, "God's" +instruments, Moses and Aaron who were to appear before the Pharoah and +cast down their rods which turned to serpents (Exodus 7th Chapter, 10th +verse). When they had cast down their rods before Pharoah, and they turned +to serpents, Pharoah called the wise men, or magicians of Egypt with their +enchantments, and they cast down their rods which also became serpents +(Exodus 7th Chapter, 11th and 12th verses). This was the performing of two +miracles, one by God's power, and one by human power. This vieing with +God, though only for an instance of time is what no white man has had the +power to do since his creation. But, however, God, in order to demonstrate +His supreme power, caused the serpents transformed from the rods of Moses +and Aaron to swallow the serpents transformed from the rods of Pharoah's +or Egypt's wise men (Exodus 7-12). This rod and serpent incident was the +beginning of a series of plague miracles (read the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th +Chapters of Exodus), which wrecked the Egyptians' or black man's kingdom, +and also destroyed that great power which he had over all other nations +and released the Jews from slavery. + +The black man's power, as the first power among the nations had now begun +to decay, and as the black race began to die, as a power among nations, +the white race began to rise to where it had never been before, but this +was 2,500 years after the black man had worked out all the problems of +civilization. + +In reading Revelation, 13th Chapter, 11th verse, of St. John, the Divine, +I am very much impressed by the description of one of his revelations +which God unfolded to him, and which he describes as follows: + +"I behold another beast coming up out of the earth and he had two horns, +like lamb's, and he spake as a dragon." Now, to my mind, the foregoing +vision of St. John the Divine, was this very country, the United States of +America, revealed to him ages ago before this country was discovered and +named, the two horns I interpret to be the two great political parties, +that have done so much to corrupt this Government and misrule its people +from their infancy to the present day. Again, the American Government +spake like a dragon when it permitted slavery to exist, especially when +its Constitution says "That ALL MEN WERE BORN FREE AND EQUAL." + +Now, concerning the creating and enthralling of nations, their rise and +fall, that is the will and the work of God. (75th Psalms, 6th and 7th +verses.) (Jeremiah, 27th and 5th verses.) (Daniel, 2nd Chapter, 21st +verse.) (Daniel, 4th Chapter, 17th verse.) + +So, since it is true that the black man is the father of civilization, it +is just as true that the white man is now at the helm, and the big "I AM" +of the civilized world. But the fact remains that he took his civilization +and his position after the black man had created it, and passed from the +stage of action, just as the white man must do at God's own appointed +time, to make room for some other race, probably the yellow race, Chinese +or Japanese. David, the Psalmist, said: "Egypt was the land of the black +man--Ham not Shem, the white man," and he further said that the +Tabernacles which were the houses and dwellings from the lowest to the +King's palaces were Ham's, and not Shem's, the white man--(Psalms, 106th +Chapter, 22nd verse; 105th Chapter, 23rd to 27th verse; 78th Chapter, 51st +verse). + +It is easy to understand why the Negro or black man is not identified with +his Egyptian brother; that reason is seldom honestly and earnestly sought +for. The reason is--that the historians, with a very few exceptions, write +from a prejudiced standpoint, together with the fact that they do not give +credit to the Old Testament, if indeed, they study it at all, especially +that part of it which is the most ancient, and beyond all shadow of a +doubt the first and only TRUE account of the origin of mankind it is easy +to understand. + +It is impossible for God to forget that the black man and his land (Egypt) +was the cradle of rescue that rocked and nursed the Son of God in his +first two years of life, when Herod's decree to destroy all children under +two years of age was issued. It was known that the decree was issued for +the express and only purpose of destroying the infant Christ, but God +chose Egypt, the black man's land, as a haven of rest and safety during +the life of the displeased and would-be infant murderer, Herod. (Matt., +2nd Chapter.) + +This might be the origin of that old, old saying, "Blood is thicker than +water," for Jesus in going into Egypt, went among black women and men, who +were the founders of the tribe from which he sprang. + +When God in His infinite wisdom, His great love, justice and mercy, and at +His own appointed time, summons mankind to take his rightful place in the +wavering human line to be rewarded for that smallest of virtues, in +proportion as he for the greatest of virtues, will say to the black man, +who will be found heading the line, "Well done, thou good and faithful +black servant, thou, My instrument, the Father of Civilization." + + +THE END. + + + + +COMMENTS ON LECTURE TOURS OF THE WRITER. + + +_To Whom It May Concern_: + +"I beg to say, after hearing Elder Webb on the subject, that the blood of +the Negro coursed through the veins of Jesus and Solomon. I am frank to +say I have seldom, if ever, enjoyed such an intellectual treat. The +position he assumed as the subject of his lecture touching the Hametic +blood and race is difficult and requires a practical knowledge of Biblical +and historical lore. But I am pleased to say that he not only shows +himself an expert, but the master of the situation, and I commend him to +the ministry and churches of our race of every denomination. Truly, + + "BISHOP H. M. TURNER." + + + + +COMMENT FROM ONE OF THE LEADING PAPERS OF THE WRITER'S HOME. + + +"The evidence submitted by Elder Webb tending to prove that the Saviour of +mankind was a black man seems to be sufficient to put those who oppose the +proposition upon their proof. Now that the chain of evidence presented by +Mr. Webb appears so complete, it is strange that none of the delvers in +the Biblical records have not advanced the sensational proposition before. +Not only was Christ a Negro, but it seems that Solomon, who has been held +up through all of the ages as the personification of wisdom, had Ethiopian +blood in his veins also."--_Seattle Daily Times._ + + + + +[Illustration: HENRY O. TANNER + +The World-Famous Afro-American Artist] + + +Henry O. Tanner is the world famous Afro-American artist. He is the oldest +son of Bishop Tanner of the A. M. E. Church. He was born in Pittsburg, +Penn., but was trained in the public schools of Philadelphia, to which +place his parents moved soon after his birth. His first steps in his life +work were taken in the art schools of Philadelphia from which training he +went to Paris where his genius developed and flowered in the studies of +Benjamin Constant and Julien. In 1895 his "Sabot Maker," was shown in the +salon exhibit and received friendly treatment from the French critics. +Frenchmen, as a rule, are not too favorably inclined to the works of +foreigners and their appreciation of Tanner is truly significant of the +real value this work--a merit which puts it beyond the limitations of race +and country. In 1896 he exhibited "Daniel in the Lion's Den," the first of +a line of religious works with which his fame has been since connected. +This picture received Honorable mention from the French Jury and was +bought by the Pennsylvania Academy. + +Mr. Tanner's picture, "The Two Disciples at the Tomb," was purchased by +the Chicago Art Institute for $1,600. + + + + + In Memory of + + Paul Lawrence + Dunbar + + Famous + African-American + Poet + + + + +THE COLORED SOLDIERS + +(From Dunbar's "Lyrics of Lowly Life.") + + If the muse were mine to tempt it + And my feeble voice were strong, + If my tongue were trained to measures, + I would sing a stirring song. + I would sing a song heroic + Of those noble sons of Ham, + Of the gallant colored soldiers + Who fought for Uncle Sam! + In the early days you scorned them, + And with many a flip and flout + Said "These battles are the white man's. + And the whites will fight them out." + Up the hills you fought and faltered, + In the vales you strove and bled, + While your ears still heard the thunder + Of the foes' advancing tread. + + Then distress fell on the nation, + And the flag was drooping low; + Should the dust pollute your banner? + No! the nation shouted, No! + So when War, in savage triumph, + Spread abroad his funeral pall-- + Then you called the colored soldiers, + And they answered to your call. + + And like hounds unleashed and eager + For the life blood of the prey, + Sprung they forth and bore them bravely + In the thickest of the fray, + And where'er the fight was hottest, + Where the bullets fastest fell, + There they pressed unblanched and fearless + At the very mouth of hell. + + +Below are written some of the comments on his poetry and prose: + +Dr. Adams, editor of "The Advance," says: "Dunbar was a genius bound in +ebony." + +Former President Theodore Roosevelt said: "I was a great admirer of his +poetry and his prose." + + + + +[Illustration: P. KA ISAKA SEME + +A NATIVE BORN AFRICAN] + + +P. Ka Isaka Seme, who delivered such a wonderful oration on the subject, +"THE REGENERATION OF AFRICA," which oration is reproduced from the Colored +American Magazine of New York (June, 1906). This oration substantiates me +in my article wherein I claim that the black man was the FATHER OF +CIVILIZATION. + + +The Regeneration of Africa + +Curtis Medals Oration, First Prize, April 5, 1906, Columbia University + +I have chosen to speak to you on this occasion upon "The Regeneration of +Africa." I am an African, and I set my pride in my race over against a +hostile public opinion. Men have tried to compare races on the basis of +some equality. In all the works of nature, equality, if by it we mean +identity, is an impossible dream! Search the universe! You will find no +two units alike. The scientists tell us there are no two cells, no two +atoms, identical. Nature has bestowed upon each a peculiar individuality, +an exclusive patent--from the great giants of the forest to the tenderest +blade. Catch in your hand, if you please, the gentle flakes of snow. Each +is a perfect gem, a new creation; it shines in its own glory--a work of +art different from all of its aerial companions. Man, the crowning +achievement of nature, defies analysis. He is a mystery through all ages +and for all time. The races of mankind are composed of free and unique +individuals. An attempt to compare them on the basis of equality can never +be finally satisfactory. Each is self. My thesis stands on this truth; +time has proved it. In all races, genius is like a spark, which, concealed +in the bosom of a flint, bursts forth at the summoning stroke. It may +arise anywhere and in any race. + +I would ask you not to compare Africa to Europe or to any other continent. +I make this request not from any fear that such comparison might bring +humiliation upon Africa. The reason I have stated,--a common standard is +impossible! Come with me to the ancient capital of Egypt, Thebes, the city +of one hundred gates. The grandeur of its venerable ruins and the gigantic +proportions of its architecture reduced to insignificance the boasted +monuments of other nations. The pyramids of Egypt are structures to which +the world presents nothing comparable. The mighty monuments seem to look +with disdain on every other work of human art and to vie with nature +herself. All the glory of Egypt belongs to Africa and her people. These +monuments are the indestructible memorials of their great and original +genius. It is not through Egypt alone that Africa claims such unrivalled +historic achievements. I could have spoken of the pyramids of Ethiopia, +which, though inferior in size to those of Egypt, far surpass them in +architectural beauty; their sepulchres which evince the highest purity of +taste, and of many prehistoric ruins in other parts of Africa. In such +ruins Africa is like the golden sun, that, having sunk beneath the western +horizon, still plays upon the world which he sustained and enlightened in +his career. + +Justly the world now demands-- + + "Whither is fled the visionary gleam, + Where is it now, the glory and the dream?" + +Oh, for that historian who, with the open pen of truth, will bring to +Africa's claim the strength of written proof. He will tell of a race whose +onward tide was often swelled with tears, but in whose heart bondage has +not quenched the fire of former years. He will write that in these later +days when Earth's noble ones are named, she has a roll of honor too, of +whom she is not ashamed. The giant is awakening! From the four corners of +the earth Africa's sons, who have been proved through fire and sword, are +marching to the future's golden door bearing the records of deeds of valor +done. + +Mr. Calhoun, I believe, was the most philosophical of all the +slave-holders. He said once that if he could find a black man who could +understand the Greek syntax, he would then consider their race human, and +his attitude toward enslaving them would therefore change. What might have +been the sensation kindled by the Greek syntax in the mind of the famous +Southerner, I have so far been unable to discover; but oh, I envy the +moment that was lost! And woe to the tongues that refused to tell the +truth! If any such were among the now living, I could show him among black +men of pure African blood those who could repeat the Koran from memory, +skilled in Latin, Greek and Hebrew,--Arabic and Chaldais--men great in +wisdom and profound knowledge--one professor of philosophy in a celebrated +German university; one corresponding member of the French Academy of +Sciences, who regularly transmitted to that society meteorological +observations, and hydrographical journals and papers on botany and +geology; another whom many ages call "The Wise," whose authority Mahomet +himself frequently appealed to in the Koran in support of his own +opinion--men of wealth and active benevolence, those whose distinguished +talents and reputation have made them famous in the cabinet and in the +field, officers of artillery in the great armies of Europe, generals and +lieutenant generals in the armies of Peter the Great in Russia and +Napoleon in France, presidents of free republics, kings of independent +nations which have burst their way to liberty by their own vigor. There +are many other Africans who have shown marks of genius and high character +sufficient to redeem their race from the charges which I am now +considering. + +Ladies and gentlemen, the day of great exploring expeditions in Africa is +over! Man knows his home now in a sense never known before. Many great and +holy men have evinced a passion for the day you are now witnessing--their +prophetic vision shot through many unborn centuries to this very hour. +"Men shall run to and fro," said Daniel, "and knowledge shall increase +upon the earth." Oh, how true! See the triumph of human genius today! +Science has searched out the deep things of nature, surprised the secrets +of the most distant stars, disentombed the memorials of everlasting hills, +taught the lightning to speak, the vapors to toil and the winds to +worship--spanned the sweeping rivers, tunneled the longest mountain +range--made the world a vast whispering gallery, and has brought foreign +nations into one civilized family. This all-powerful contact says even to +the most backward race, you cannot remain where you are, you cannot fall +back you must advance! A great century has come upon us. No race +possessing the inherent capacity to survive can resist and remain +unaffected by this influence of contact and intercourse, the backward with +the advanced. This influence constitutes the very essence of efficient +progress and of civilization. + +From these heights of the twentieth century I again ask you to cast your +eyes south of the Desert of Sahara. If you could go with me to the +oppressed Congos and ask, what does it mean, that now, for liberty, they +fight like men and die like martyrs; if you would go with me to +Bechuanaland, face their council of Headmen and ask what motives caused +them recently to decree so emphatically that alcoholic drinks shall not +enter their country--visit their king, Khama, ask for what cause he leaves +the gold and ivory palace of his ancestors, its mountain strongholds and +all its august ceremony, to wander daily from village to village through +all his kingdom, without a guard or any decoration of his rank--a preacher +of industry and education, and an apostle of the new order of things; if +you would ask Menelik what means this that Abyssinia is now looking across +the ocean--oh, if you could read the letters that come to us from +Zululand--you, too, would be convinced that the elevation of the African +race is evidently a part of the new order of things that belong to this +new and powerful period. + +The African already recognizes his anomalous position and desires a +change. The brighter day is rising upon Africa. Already I seem to see her +chains dissolved, her desert plains red with harvest, her Ayssinia and her +Zululand the seats of science and religion, reflecting the glory of the +rising sun from the spires of their churches and universities. Her Congo +and her Gambia whitened with commerce, her crowded cities sending forth +the hum of business, and all her sons employed in advancing the victories +of peace--greater and more abiding than the spoils of war. + +Yes, the regeneration of Africa belongs to this new and powerful period! +By this term regeneration I wish to be understood to mean the entrance +into a new life, embracing the diverse phases of a higher, complex +existence. The basic factor which assures their regeneration resides in +the awakened race-consciousness. This gives them a clear perception of +their elemental needs and of their undeveloped powers. It therefore must +lead them to the attainment of that higher and advanced standard of life. + +The African people, although not a strictly homogeneous race, possess a +common fundamental sentiment which is everywhere manifest, crystalizing +itself into one common controlling idea. Conflicts and strife are rapidly +disappearing before the fusing force of this enlightened perception of the +true intertribal relation, which relation should subsist among a people +with a common destiny. Agencies of a social, economic and religious +advance tell of a new spirit which, acting as a leavening ferment, shall +raise the anxious and aspiring mass to the level of their ancient glory. +The ancestral greatness, the unimpaired genius, and the recuperative power +of the race, its irrepressibility, which assures its permanence, +constitute the African's greatest source of inspiration. He has refused to +camp forever on the borders of the industrial world; having learned that +knowledge is power, he is educating his children. You find them in +Edinburgh, in Cambridge, and in the great schools of Germany. These return +to their country like arrows, to drive darkness from the land. I hold that +this industrial and educational initiative, and his untiring devotion to +these activities must be regarded as positive evidences of this process of +his regeneration. + +The regeneration of Africa means that a new and unique civilization is +soon to be added to the world. The African is not a proletarian in the +world of science and art. He has precious creations of his own, of ivory, +of copper and of gold, fine, plaited willow-ware and weapons of superior +workmanship. Civilization resembles an organic being in its +development--it is born, it perishes, and it can propogate itself. More +particularly, it resembles a plant, it takes root in the teeming earth, +and when the seeds fall in other soils new varieties sprout up. The most +essential departure of this new civilization is that it shall be +thoroughly spiritual and humanistic--indeed a regeneration moral and +eternal! + + +O AFRICA! + + Like some great century plant that shall bloom + In ages hence, we watch thee; in our dream + See in thy swamps the Prospero of our stream; + Thy doors unlocked, where knowledge in her tomb + Hath lain innumerable years in gloom. + Then shalt thou, waking with that morning gleam + Shine as thy sister lands with equal beam. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Black Man, the Father of +Civilization, by James Morris Webb + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BLACK MAN, FATHER OF CIVILIZATION *** + +***** This file should be named 39509.txt or 39509.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/9/5/0/39509/ + +Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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