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Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps; Raymond Lufkin is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Story of the Negro about?

"In the past thirty years I think I have owned and read every published history of the Negro. This is by all odds the best written, the most interesting, accurate, and concise work for the general reader." Arthur B. Spingarn, President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People In this account of the history of his people, Arna Bontemps has told the story that, he says, "I would have given my eye teeth to know when I was a high school boy in Californiathe story that my history books barely mentioned." Its scope is wide, for he traces the history of the Negro people from "as far back as it goes" down to the present. But the rich and colorful picture of the Negro in Africa is merely the background for what was to follow when boatloads of stolen men were brought to the shores of America to be sold as slaves. "Along the way," he says, "I tried to make clear how American slavery came about and what causes lay behind the present attitudes toward Negroes on the part of some people." The long, hard struggle that ensued is a story filled with courage and heroism. What adventure stories can rival the tales of the slave ships "Le Rodeur" and the "Saint Leon"; the mutiny

Who reads Story of the Negro?

Author

Arna Bontemps; Raymond Lufkin

Publisher

Random House Childrens Books (Lib)

Published

1975

Language

EN

ISBN

9780394916903

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Sociology, History

Rating

3.67 / 5 (16 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14