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James Morris Webb

Best known for a 1910 work that argued for the central place of Black people in world civilization, this early 20th-century writer took on big historical and biblical questions with unusual confidence. His surviving public record is slim, but his book has continued to attract readers interested in race, religion, and intellectual history.

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The Black Man, the Father of Civilization, Proven by Biblical History

The Black Man, the Father of Civilization, Proven by Biblical History

by James Morris Webb

About the author

James Morris Webb is known as the author of The Black Man, the Father of Civilization, Proven by Biblical History, published in Seattle in 1910. The book presents an ambitious argument about Black history and the origins of civilization, drawing on biblical interpretation as part of its case.

Reliable biographical details about his life are hard to confirm from the sources available here, so it is safest to describe him mainly through his published work. Even so, that book has given him a lasting place in discussions of early Black historical writing and race-conscious scholarship in the United States.