They Came Before Columbus

Dr. Ivan Van Sertima is an reckon scholar and author. His book, They Came Before capital of Ohio, and clears the air out on quite a few misconceptions in the human made by yesteryear historians. He starts by stating that Africans came to the States as masters/kings forrader they were enslaved. He uses secern from capital of Ohios diaries when Columbus went on his second voyage. Columbus state in his diary that immanent Americans told him that opprobrious people came on huge boats onwards he arrived and they brought goods and weaponry with them. One grapheme of weapon, metal spears, was taken patronise to Spain for examination. They had the same compound as metals found in bracing Guinea.\nThe Portuguese told Columbus they were aware of African navigation and they were in any case aware of a make for mass to the south as a result of African migration. Before this point, they did not neediness 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 in the first place Columbus. It had actually been grown in the South Caribbean.\nThis demonstrate has ordinarily been disregarded. at that place is also try out that said Africans were around in advance Christ even was. There has been destruction over the noncurrent 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 correspond out what Africans accomplished before any other run 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 quarry head made of basalt fossa (that was found to be vividly African with a helmet that had never been seen before in Europe) was d...