'They Came Before Columbus'

'Dr. Ivan cutting edge Sertima is an esteemed prentice and author. His book, They Came Before capital of Ohio, and clears the tune on quite a a few(prenominal) misconceptions in the adult male made by ancient historians. He starts by stating that Africans came to the States as know/kings a transmit they were enslaved. He uses picture from capital of Ohios diaries when Columbus went on his plump for voyage. Columbus express in his daybook that Native Americans told him that dim people came on huge boats onwards he arrived and they brought goods and weaponry with them. One eccentric person of weapon, metal spears, was taken back to Spain for examination. They had the same(p) compound as metals set in New Guinea.\nThe Lusitanian told Columbus they were sensitive of African navigation and they were similarly cognisant of a reach mass to the southerly as a result of African migration. Before this point, they did not want to very acknowledge that Africans had been locomote independently. The Portuguese similarly told Columbus that they had found like in the Cape Verde Islands and they image it to be from Africa. It was unimpeachably planted originally Columbus. It had genuinely been swelled in the to the south Caribbean.\nThis evidence has ordinarily been disregarded. on that point is also evidence that say Africans were around before Christ still was. at that place has been conclusion 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 play out what Africans effected before any(prenominal) other guide did.\nColumbus actually never stirred 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 beforehand(predicate) evidence of cotton found on the Cape Verde Islands.\nA scar 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... '