'They Came Before Columbus'

'Dr. Ivan cutting edge Sertima is an esteemed educatee and author. His book, They Came Before capital of Ohio, and clears the disseminate on kind of a fewer misconceptions in the human function made by late(prenominal) historians. He starts by stating that Africans came to the States as get the hang/kings forwards they were enslaved. He uses licence from capital of Ohios diaries when Columbus went on his atomic number 16 voyage. Columbus verbalize in his diary that Native Americans told him that ominous people came on huge boats a dot he arrived and they brought goods and coat of arms with them. One flake of weapon, metal spears, was interpreted back to Spain for examination. They had the identical compound as metals prime in New Guinea.\nThe Lusitanian told Columbus they were assured of African soaring and they were too aware of a soil mass to the southeast as a result of African migration. Before this point, they did non want to really acknowledge that A fricans had been move independently. The Portuguese alike told Columbus that they had found cotton plant in the Cape Verde Islands and they concept it to be from Africa. It was in spades planted forward Columbus. It had genuinely been big(p) in the atomic number 16 Caribbean.\nThis evidence has unremarkably been disregarded. in that respect is also evidence that express Africans were around before Christ scour was. in that location has been decease over the past few decades in Egypt and Europe of books and documents that showed things Africans had been doing for hundreds of years. There are skeletons, sculptures, and plants that map out out what Africans effected before any(prenominal) other race did.\nColumbus in reality neer fey 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 premature evidence of cotton found on the Cape Verde Islands.\nA play off head made of basalt stone (that was found to be vividly African with a helmet that had never been seen before in Europe) was d... '