He saw it as the deliberate falsification of history.

He was certain that the European writers had it wrong and knew that they knew that the record was distorted. This greatly disturbed the mind of George G. They had assumed that philosophy started with the Greeks and had written books establishing a lie as truth. He knew very early in his career that something was wrong with the way the history of philosophy was written by European scholars. James was not only a good teacher but he was an avid reader in the African and European classics. He had come from Guyana, like so many intellectuals before and after, and was completely won over by the epic struggles of Africans in the United States. But this had been the history of George G. Pine Bluff was neither Harvard nor Howard, and a professor who taught at the Arkansas school in the l950s was making a sacrifice in the name of education. One could easily have overlooked James’ contribution to scholarship given the fact that he was a professor at a small African American college in Arkansas, a long way from the fabled halls of ivory or ebony in American education. James may not have known that his work would have the impact it did on the world, but he knew that it was necessary to set the record straight about the ancient history of philosophy. James was the fact that it struck at the jugular of white Western notions of superiority.

Stolen Legacy was not dangerous in the sense that it called for revolution against oppression or that it promoted attacks on white racists. James wrote Stolen Legacy in l954 he had no awareness that his little book would become one of the most threatening pieces of literature ever published in the United States of America.

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