# The Negro

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| author            = W. E. B. Du Bois
| pub_date          = 1915
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{{Short description|Book by W. E. B. Du Bois}}
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{{about|the 1915 book|other uses|Negro (disambiguation)}}
'''''The Negro''''' is a book by [W. E. B. Du Bois](/source/W._E._B._Du_Bois) published in 1915 and released in electronic form by [Project Gutenberg](/source/Project_Gutenberg) in 2011.<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15359 "The Negro by W. E. B. Du Bois"] at Project Gutenberg.</ref>  It is an overview of [African-American](/source/African-American) history, tracing it as far back as the [sub-Sahara](/source/sub-Sahara)n cultures, including [Great Zimbabwe](/source/Great_Zimbabwe), Ghana and [Songhai](/source/Songhai_people), as well as covering the history of the [slave trade](/source/History_of_slavery) and the history of Africans in the United States and the [Caribbean](/source/Caribbean).

Historians John Parker and Richard Rathbone call the book the "first serious attempt at a continent-wide history [of Africa]".<ref>African History: A Very Short Introduction, p. 36.</ref>

==See also==
*[Negro](/source/Negro)

==References==
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