The Negro Or African American His Past Present And Future An Ethnological L
The Negro Or African American His Past Present And Future An Ethnological L
George Price
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Its sovereign is a negro, its armies are negroes, its people negroes; a city which is the general mart of the commerce of Western Africa, aud whose trade and manufactures seem to be equally esteemed and pro- tected. " " We know not, " he continues (remember I am still quot- 15 ing from Dr. Good), " the antiquity of this kingdom, but there can be no doubt of its having a just claim to a very high origin. And it is possible that at the very period in which our own ancestors, as described by Juliu...s Caesar, were naked and smeared over with paint, or merely dot hod with the skins of wild boasts, living in huts and worshiping the mistletoe, the black kingdom of Bambara, of which Timbuctoo is the capital, was as completely established and flourishing as at the pres- ent moment. " Mr. Jackson (Ibid, page 210), in his account ot the Empire of Morocco, gives a description of the kingdom of Bambara, in which he says: "The city is situated on a plain, surrounded by a sandy eminence, about twelve miles north of the Nile Elebeade, or Nile of the Blacks, and three days journey from the confines of Sahara, about twelve miles in circumference, but without walls.
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