This study focuses on the exploitive nature of the word ''Negro." Tracing its origins to the African slave trade, he shows how the label "Negro" was used to separate African descendents and to confirm their supposed inferiority.

As an orator, avid readr and Black bibliophile, Moore recognized the critical need for Black people to understand the use of language as a tool of prejudice, and more importantly, as an instrument of liberation.

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History, Africa