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 carry on quite a few misconceptions in the creative activity made by gone historians. He starts by stating that Africans came to the States as masters/kings in advance they were enslaved. He uses usher from capital of Ohios diaries when Columbus went on his second voyage. Columbus tell in his diary that indigen Americans told him that raw people came on huge boats in the lead he arrived and they brought goods and weaponry with them. One image of weapon, metal spears, was taken backbone to Spain for examination. They had the same compound as metals found in pertly Guinea.\nThe Portuguese told Columbus they were awake of African navigation and they were excessively aware of a kingdom mass to the south as a result of African migration. Before this point, they did not unavoidableness to really acknowledge that Africans had been pitiful independently. The Portugu ese 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 point has ordinarily been disregarded. at that place is also show that said Africans were around originally Christ even was. There has been destruction over the medieval 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 represent out what Africans accomplished before any other lean 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 moved from the Americas to the Caribbean, which corresponds with the early evidence of cotton found on the Cape Verde Islands.\nA precious treasure head made of basalt stone (t hat was found to be vividly African with a helmet that had never been seen before in Europe) was d...