The Cushite, Or, The Descendants of Ham

"Perry is a splendid type of the Negro genius." -Men of Mark (1887) "Perry is considered one of the best scholars the negro race has produced." -Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia (1896) "Perry is able to offer hope for modern Cushites in the prophesied moment when Cush will 'stretch out her hands unto God.'" -Light Against Darkness (2010) "Rufus Perry traced the ancestry of Black Americans to the biblical Cushites." - Black Women in United States History (1990) "For Perry the contribution of Black p