The Negro Speaks of Rivers

In this poem the author is referring to things that black people did before any white people were around. He speaks that his ancestors bathed in the Euphrates River and that’s were scientist believed the first people began, that the Egyptians who were responsible for the great pyramids were in Africa and were black. All that he is saying is that a lot of the great wonders of the world were seen by black people way before any type of white man. This poem is an element from the Harlem Renaissance because he is expressing the African American culture and how rich it is.