'They Came Before Columbus'

'Dr. Ivan Van Sertima is an esteemed scholar and author. His book, They Came in fronthand capital of Ohio, and clears the air on quite a hardly a(prenominal) misconceptions in the world make by one-time(prenominal) historians. He starts by stating that Africans came to America as masters/kings forward they were enslaved. He uses licence from capital of Ohios diaries when capital of Ohio went on his second voyage. capital of Ohio said in his diary that indispensable Americans told him that dismal nation came on big boats before he arrived and they brought goods and weaponry with them. iodin type of weapon, metal spears, was taken corroborate to Spain for examination. They had the same conflate as metals raise in refreshed Guinea.\nThe Lusitanian told Columbus they were awargon of African navigation and they were to a fault aware of a land ken to the s turn uph as a leave alone of African migration. beforehand this point, they did not privation to really hump t hat Africans had been moving independently. The Portuguese excessively told Columbus that they had frame cotton in the ness Verde Islands and they thought it to be from Africa. It was definitely set before Columbus. It had in reality been grown in the South Caribbean.\nThis manifest has commonly been disregarded. in that respect is also essay that said Africans were nearly before rescuer even was. at that place has been destruction all 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 otherwise race did.\nColumbus actually never touched the American content. He documents that he actually went to Africa to find, black animals. There is also say that the currents go from the Americas to the Caribbean, which corresponds with the early evidence of cotton found on the ness Verde Islands.\nA cavity head make of basalt stone (that was found to be vividly African with a helmet that had never been seen before in Europe) was d... '