"Zama" Quotes from Famous Books
... subsequently built the great city of Carthage, near to where Tunis, in Africa, is now situated. They were again overthrown and their city destroyed by Scipio Africanus Secundus, after the battle of Zama. But, during one of the sieges, the city being invested by the Romans, the people became hard pressed for provisions, to supply which, they resolved on building some ships, to run the blockade for provisions. But after their ... — The Negro: what is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. • Buckner H. 'Ariel' Payne |