In this book, you ll learn about the history of Black people. I don t mean the history you learned in school, which most likely began with slavery and ended with the Civil Rights Movement. I m talking about Black history BEFORE that. Long before that. In this book, we ll cover over 200,000 years of Black history. For many of us, that sounds strange. We can t even imagine what the Black past was like before the slave trade, much less imagine that such a history goes back 200,000 years or more.