Great Book to Read: Antenor Firmin's The Equality of the Races

19th century Haitian intellectual, lawyer, diplomat and anthropologist's The Equality of the Races, published in 1885, is a powerful rebuttal to Gobineau's scientific racism the dominant views on black racial inferiority which still influence the 21st century. Firmin treatise on racial equality includes an analysis of world history which gives numerous examples of contributions to human development and civilization by those designated as black, focusing on Egypt. Thus, his work is interesting for demonstrating once again the long history of blacks in the United States and Haiti correctly identifying Egypt as a product of African cultures of blacks. He also backs up his statements with evidence from Egypt, quotations from classical sources such as Herodotus, and French Egyptologists of the century who actually concurred on the black origins of Kemet. 

Although published in 1885, it may sound like quite a few contemporary Afrocentric tracts and surprisingly, at times like Martin Bernal's Black Athena. So the so-called lies and therapeutic history of modern Afrocentrists has a long history going back centuries. One of these days I'll have to get my hands on this book instead of just reading reviews and the google book preview.