They Came Before Columbus

Dr. Ivan Van Sertima is an view scholar and author. His book, They Came Before capital of Ohio, and clears the send off on quite a few misconceptions in the worldly concern made by knightly historians. He starts by stating that Africans came to the States as masters/kings forward they were enslaved. He uses yard from capital of Ohios diaries when Columbus went on his second voyage. Columbus utter in his diary that native Americans told him that char people came on huge boats originally he arrived and they brought goods and weaponry with them. One compositors case of weapon, metal spears, was taken anchor to Spain for examination. They had the same compound as metals found in spic-and-span Guinea.\nThe Portuguese told Columbus they were apprised of African navigation and they were overly aware of a filth mass to the south as a result of African migration. Before this point, they did not extremity to really acknowledge that Africans had been move independently. The Port uguese 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 ahead Columbus. It had actually been grown in the South Caribbean.\nThis usher has ordinarily been disregarded. at that place is also recount that said Africans were around forwards Christ even was. There has been destruction over the recent 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 purpose out what Africans accomplished before any other passage 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 nether region head made of basalt mark (that was found to be vi vidly African with a helmet that had never been seen before in Europe) was d...