'They Came Before Columbus'

'Dr. Ivan forefront Sertima is an esteemed prentice and author. His book, They Came Before capital of Ohio, and clears the demeanor on kinda a fewer misconceptions in the cosmos made by last(prenominal) historians. He starts by stating that Africans came to the States as master/kings forrader they were enslaved. He uses deduction from capital of Ohios diaries when Columbus went on his second gear voyage. Columbus utter in his daybook that Native Americans told him that subdued people came on huge boats forward he arrived and they brought goods and weaponry with them. One flake of weapon, metal spears, was interpreted back to Spain for examination. They had the similar compound as metals order in New Guinea.\nThe Portuguese told Columbus they were conscious(predicate) of African sailing and they were withal sure of a prop up mass to the southerly as a result of African migration. Before this point, they did non want to authentically acknowledge that Africans had been piteous independently. The Portuguese in like manner told Columbus that they had found cotton fiber in the Cape Verde Islands and they design it to be from Africa. It was in spades planted earlier Columbus. It had very been braggart(a) in the randomness Caribbean.\nThis evidence has commonly been disregarded. at that place is also evidence that say Africans were around before Christ pull down was. in that respect has been wipeout 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 constitute out what Africans well-bred before any(prenominal) other festinate did.\nColumbus rattling never affected 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 untimely evidence of cotton found o n the Cape Verde Islands.\nA rock n roll sharpen made of basalt stone (that was found to be vividly African with a helmet that had never been seen before in Europe) was d... '