They Came Before Columbus

Dr. Ivan Van Sertima is an respect scholar and author. His book, They Came Before capital of Ohio, and clears the blood on quite a few misconceptions in the homo made by by one-time(prenominal) historians. He starts by stating that Africans came to the States as masters/kings in the lead they were enslaved. He uses consequence from capital of Ohios diaries when Columbus went on his second voyage. Columbus verbalize in his diary that indigene Americans told him that gloomy people came on huge boats onward he arrived and they brought goods and weaponry with them. One sheath of weapon, metal spears, was taken mainstay to Spain for examination. They had the same compound as metals found in rising Guinea.\nThe Portuguese told Columbus they were witting of African navigation and they were withal aware of a drop off mass to the south as a result of African migration. Before this point, they did not wishing to really acknowledge that Africans had been go independently. The Portuguese also told Columbus that they had found cotton in the Cape Verde Islands and they thought it to be from Africa. It was definitely planted forward Columbus. It had actually been grown in the South Caribbean.\nThis bear witness has normally been disregarded. in that respect is also indicate that said Africans were around in the beginning Christ even was. There has been destruction over the past few decades in Egypt and atomic number 63 of books and documents that showed things Africans had been doing for hundreds of years. There are skeletons, sculptures, and plants that be out what Africans accomplished before any other travel rapidly did.\nColumbus actually never touched the American content. He documents that he actually went to Africa to find, black animals. There is also evidence that the currents moved from the Americas to the Caribbean, which corresponds with the early evidence of cotton found on the Cape Verde Islands.\nA muffin head made of basalt treasure ( that was found to be vividly African with a helmet that had never been seen before in Europe) was d...