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From 4000B.C. to the Abolition of the Slave Trade
 The history of Africa and its people has been suppressed and distorted. North Africa is often viewed as separate from the rest of Africa and its population as not including Africans, or when Africans are included they are not identified as blacks. This chronology in part is concerned with slavery and the slave trade as inhuman institutions their impact on whites as well as blacks, how emancipation came about and the part played by blacks in their abolition.

These facts enable the reader to perceive the interrelation of events in the history of blacks in various parts of the world and to observe the way in which the slavery of blacks in the United States was integral to worldwide financial, cultural, religious, technological, and scientific conditions.

The importance of organizing and making readily available the record of events and personalities in the history of Africans and their descendants can scarcely be overemphasised. Social policy and social reform to a large extent depend on accurate and complete information. The revolution in research and scholarship and the reconsideration and re-examination of old research regarding blacks, demand a chronology that includes relevant events in the history of blacks from a new perspective: the mere questioning of the labelling of people, such as Ethiopians and Egyptians previously considered white, is itself significant.

c.4777 B.C. "About 4777 B.C. Aha-mena began the first of three successive Egyptian empires. This lasted 2,000 years, with many Pharoahs, like Khafra of the Fourth Dynasty, of a strongly negroid case of countenance. At the end of the period the empire fell apart into Egyptian and Ethiopian halves and a silence of three centuries ensued . . ." (Du Bois 1915) "The Great Sphinx at Giza. so familiar to all the world, the Sphinxes of Tanis, the statue from the Fayim. the statue of the Esquiline at Rome, and the Colossi of Bubastis" all represent . . . "blacks," and are described by (William Flinders) Petreie (a expert in the field of Egyptology) as 'having high cheek bones, flat cheeks, both in one plane, a massive nose, firm projecting lips. and thick hair. with an austere and almost savage expression of power" (Du Bois 1915 Du Bois 1939).

3500 B.C. — 1723 B.C. A protohistoric period in history of Ethiopia; includes two periods corresponding with the Old and Middle Kingdoms of Egypt and a third period corresponding with the New Egyptian Empire.
An historic period, from 1 723 B.C. to 335 A.D. includes:
A The Napatan Period - 1723 B.C. to 308 B.C.
B The Middle Meriotic Period-308 B.C. to 10 A.D.
C The Late Meriotic Period-10 A.D. to 355 A.D.
(Du Bois 1939)

3064 B.C. The middle empire arose and lasted nearly twenty-four centuries. Under Pharoahs whose African descent is plainly evident, such as Amenamhat I and 11 and Usertesen I, the ancient glories of Egypt were restored and surpassed.

c.3000 B.C. Imhotep, a learned black physician, the earliest known physician and scientific genius, lived in Egypt. In the course of time, he was deified and became for later genrations the special god of medicine.

c.2660 B.C. Usertesen III drove back the black tribes of the Upper Nile Valley, attempting to confine them to the edge of the Nubian Desert. Here, they set up the state of Napata. In less than a century, an African from the South, Ra Nehesi was seated on the throne of the Pharoahs and called "the King's eldest son". The whole empire was somewhat shaken, and two centuries later saw the start of the Hyksos invasion. The Hyksos kings, possibly Negroids from Asia, dominated the Upper Nile Valley for 500 years. (Du Bois 1947, 1915).

c. 2000 B.C. Due to some climatic change, the Sahara began to dry up, causing humans and animals to disperse. (Davidson, 1966)

c. 1420 —1412 B.C. King Tut's fraternal grandfather, Thurmose IV (1425 B.C. - 1412 B.C.). the successor of Amenhotep II, it is believed rnarried a black woman, Mulemua. Amonhotep III, whom King Tut staled was his father, was approriately black.

1580 B.C.—1350 B.C. Aahmes, founded the 18th Dynasty, which lasted 1500 years. Black Nefertari "the most venerated figure of Egyptian history", was his co-founder and his queen. She was known for her beauty, personality and administrative skills.

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