Antenor Firmin, The Haitian Scholar Who Predicted Obama's Presidency Over a Century Ago

Antenor Firmin

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Antenor Firmin wrote about the day when Barack Obama would become president of the United States in a book he published in Paris back in 1885.

Here is what Antenor Firmin said in the chapter "The Role of the Black Race in the History of Civilization" - This book, by the way, was written as a counterpunch for an essay that influenced NAZI ideology.

Appearances to the contrary, this big country is destined to strike the first blow against the theory of the inequality of the human races.

Besides, we must remember that slavery in the United States was abolished only twenty years ago.

The book is called: "De l'egalite des Race Humaines", it was translated into English - The Equality of the Human Races - in 2002 by Asselin Charles (University of Illinois Press, 2002)

I have to give credit to two people for this find:

1 - Thanks to Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban who actually wrote the original article; more than that, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban is a professor of anthropology at Rhode Island College AND she wrote the introduction to The Equality of the Human Races (Asselin Charles' English translation) by Antenor Firmin

2 - Thanks to Merritt G. Claude who emailed it to me.

By the way, if you want the hard copy of this book...

It's $142.00 U.S.!!!

3 - Want to get the book?

Get the book and read it "The Equality of the Human Races, Positivist anthropology" by Antenor Firmin, translated by Asselin Charles, Introduced by C. Fluehr-Lobban, Univ of Illinois Press, ISBN: 0-252-07102-6. Maybe you'll find it in a local library.

The soft copy is available for much less at Amazon.com

Thanks Florence R. for the info

(Updated 2009-04-06)

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