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A short cut to the world history of the negro, and worlds great men of color, volume i. Rogers was an anthropologist and historian whose pioneering work in black studies was little appreciated during his lifetime. Joel augustus rogers seminal work, this novel first published in 1917 is a polemic against the ignorance that fuels racism. In this timely book j a rogers tell the story base on facts using a a young man on a train and a white man in government over the history of the.
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