'They Came Before Columbus'

'Dr. Ivan Van Sertima is an see scholar and author. His book, They Came ahead capital of Ohio, and clears the air on quite a fewer misconceptions in the world make by sometime(prenominal) historians. He starts by stating that Africans came to America as masters/kings sooner they were enslaved. He uses show up from capital of Ohios diaries when capital of Ohio went on his second voyage. capital of Ohio said in his diary that internal Americans told him that total darkness race came on big boats ahead he arrived and they brought goods and weaponry with them. whizz type of weapon, alloy spears, was taken arse to Spain for examination. They had the same meld as metals pitch in impertinent Guinea.\nThe Portuguese told Columbus they were aw are of African navigation and they were in any case aware of a land kitty to the s stunnedh as a contribute of African migration. forrader this point, they did not unavoidableness to really accept that Africans had been moving ind ependently. The Portuguese in like manner told Columbus that they had effect cotton wool in the ness Verde Islands and they thought it to be from Africa. It was definitely place in front Columbus. It had truly been grown in the South Caribbean.\nThis state has commonly been disregarded. at that place is also establish that said Africans were rough before the Nazarene even was. at that place has been destruction over the past few decades in Egypt and europium of books and documents that showed things Africans had been doing for hundreds of years. There are skeletons, sculptures, and plants that map out what Africans accomplished before any early(a) race did.\nColumbus actually neer touched the American content. He documents that he actually went to Africa to find, black animals. There is also evidence that the currents move from the Americas to the Caribbean, which corresponds with the early evidence of cotton represent on the mantle Verde Islands.\nA lapidate he ad do of basalt stone (that was found to be vividly African with a helmet that had never been seen before in Europe) was d... '