![]() ![]() ![]() When the metallurgists in Spain assayed these spears, they found they were identical, not similar, but were identical in their ratio of gold, silver and copper alloys as spears then being forged in African Guinea.” However, Columbus actually sent back on a mail boat to Spain samples of these gold-tipped metal spears. It could be dark, bronze people from South America. Probably Columbus did not believe this, and that fact in itself would not be enough because the so-called Black people could be any people. Columbus actually said in the journal of his second voyage when he was in Haiti, then known as Espanola, Native Americans came to him and told him that Black people had come in large boats from the south and southeast trading in gold-tipped metal spears. ![]() “Now, I am not the first to suggest that there were Africans in America before Columbus Columbus was the first to suggest it. Van Sertima repeated this claim again when he testified in front of the House of Representatives in 1987: Van Sertima even argued that in several writings Columbus suggested that Africans were in the Americas before he was. When you push one door, other doors begin to open.” Van Sertima added, “How many of us know the African influence on ancient Greece and Rome? There is also a vast body of knowledge to be uncovered about Africa and America. ![]()
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