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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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