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The First Black Archaeologist - A Life of John Wesley Gilbert (Hardcover)
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The First Black Archaeologist - A Life of John Wesley Gilbert (Hardcover)
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An inspiring portrait of an overlooked pioneer in Black history and
American archaeology The First Black Archaeologist reveals the
untold story of a pioneering African American classical scholar,
teacher, community leader, and missionary. Born into slavery in
rural Georgia, John Wesley Gilbert (1863-1923) gained national
prominence in the early 1900s, but his accomplishments are little
known today. Using evidence from archives across the U.S. and
Europe, from contemporary publications, and from newly discovered
documents, this book chronicles, for the first time, Gilbert's
remarkable journey. As we follow Gilbert from the segregated public
schools of Augusta, Georgia, to the lecture halls of Brown
University, to his hiring as the first black faculty member of
Augusta's Paine Institute, and through his travels in Greece,
western Europe, and the Belgian Congo, we learn about the
development of African American intellectual and religious culture,
and about the enormous achievements of an entire generation of
black students and educators. Readers interested in the early
development of American archaeology in Greece will find an entirely
new perspective here, as Gilbert was one of the first Americans of
any race to do archaeological work in Greece. Those interested in
African American history and culture will gain an invaluable new
perspective on a leading yet hidden figure of the late 1800s and
early 1900s, whose life and work touched many different aspects of
the African American experience.
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