6 Pages. Photo: These Sioux Indians in the Black Hills area of Custer, S.D. Mike Harrington: His team looks good, even without Alex Tuch. When evidence came out refuting Van Sertimas storytelling, he concocted an ad hoc hypothesis to save his hypothesis from immunization. The African presence in America before Columbus is of importance not only to African and American history but to the history of world civilizations. Barbour, the first African-American to earn a doctorate in archaeology, is an expert on Mesoamerican culture and associate scientific director of the African Burial Ground Project in Lower Manhattan. Critics in anthropology and archaeology have stated that They Came Before Columbus portrays Native Mesoamerican peoples as inferior and incapable of developing highly sophisticated civilizations, cultures, and technologies without the influence of Africans arriving by boat as gods in their eyes, as Van Sertima puts it. "Some of these voyages are designed or planned; some are accidental," he said. Van Sertima said: "Many people feel a certain kind of happiness when they read my book. Additionally, they wrote that Van Sertima "diminishe[d] the real achievements of Native American culture" by his claims of African origin for them. Dwayne Wong (Omowale) is a Guyanese born Pan-Africanist and author. Van Sertima answers that Africans were indeed sailors, that a division of Negro sea captains and mariners is reported to have been in the Egyptian navy of the 19th dynasty and the East Africans sailed between their countries and China in the 13th century. Also, Van Sertimas case could be strengthened if statues and art known to intended to depict Native Americans were also shown in comparison. (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). I can only assume that Van Sertima is largely responsible for this line of thinking which was largely debunked then and is especially debunked today . Columbus is such a late-comer that it is almost silly to compare anybody's arrival to his. All of these claims are incrediblewhich means that they deserve incredible evidence in order to verify them. All Rights Reserved. I am not suggesting that no African people were in the Americas before Columbus. But early African contact, by free peoples, is being viewed in school curriculum development as a source of pride for a large segment of the modern school population, to counter what Van Sertima termed "disrespect for the Africans" who had built early civilizations and empires in their own homelands long before European contact. Classical scholar Mary Lefkowitz who debunked Afrocentric claims about ancient Greece and Rome in her book Not out of Africa explains how her colleagues let her down because of the fear of being labelled as racist like she was. I want to make a point of clarification here. When you push one door, other doors begin to open.". 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. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. The professor also catalogs cultural evidence in a Negroid skeleton found in the Virgin Islands dating back to 1250 A.D. and the finding of African cotton in the Americas. To assuage the Christian conscience for the enslavement of a people, one could not believe that black people were intelligent enough and capable of such feats as the ancient Egyptians. At the time that the dominant narrative of the origins of ancient Egyptian civilization emerged, the use of African slaves was well into effect. Several words are also similar with similar meanings such as nama-tigi or ama-tigi from the Bambara of the Mandingos and aman-teca from the Nahuatl of Mexico, both of which refer to master or chief or headman. Van Sertima presents an argument for the transformation of the word banana with African origins. Van Sertima added, How many of us know the African influence on ancient Greece and Rome? Unfortunately, the scholarship that he has inspired has tended to be of a worse quality than Van Sertimas was. Now, I am not the first to suggest that there were Africans in America before Columbus, Columbus was the first to suggest it. It was also concluded that it was not likely that these seeds were carried by birds. In Hidden Colors, a documentary by filmmaker Tariq Nasheed, Dr. Umar Johnson, a doctor of Clinical Psychology, is interviewed and claims that Africans were going back and forth engaging in cultural and economic trade before Columbus. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Required fields are marked *. A celebrated classic, They Came Before Columbus, dea. Laster that year he returned to this country to teach at Rutgers. Many historians have worked at debunking the They Came Before Columbus and Africans Were Already In America myth. So basically the vast majority of scholars reject Afrocentrism, but are too afraid to say so in public. ", Van Sertima said he didn't travel much to research the book. https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1404242564585246720?s=20&t=Lv4XscKZw3SR_tmBhetmbg, https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1501640824576110595?s=20&t=Lv4XscKZw3SR_tmBhetmbg, https://twitter.com/RDCRaissa/status/1503381403836293127?s=20&t=Lv4XscKZw3SR_tmBhetmbg, https://twitter.com/JaKaB0i_116/status/1503133876637638663?s=20&t=Lv4XscKZw3SR_tmBhetmbg, The Genetic Ancestry of African Americans, Latinos, and European Americans across the United States. The books showed an African and Arabic influence on medeival Mexican and South languages prior to European contact. There is hardly a claim in any of Van Sertimas writings that can be supported by the evidence found in the archaeological, botanical, linguistic, or historical record. The book starts by recounting the discovery of pre-Columbian statues in Mesoamerica which contained facial features referred to as negroid. Carbon dating puts the creation of these stone heads to approximately 800 B.C. The story of Hannibal of Carthage always stuck with me since high school, though his story was told probably because of its relation to European history. Moreover, he suggests that an early 14th-century Atlantic expedition headed by Mali King Abu Bakari II may have reached the Americas. But the claims presented in Hidden Colors and the claims presented by others who promote the notion of Black aboriginals are so misinformed that in many cases they just seem nonsensical. Van Sertimas main evidence for his claims regarding a pre-Colombian contact between ancient Africans (Nubians) and Olmecs rests on the supposed similarities between Negroid facial features and the colossal Olmec heads. Van Sertima even argued that in several writings Columbus suggested that Africans were in the Americas before he was. His widow, Jacqueline Van Sertima, said she would continue to publish the Journal of African Civilizations. Though Egypt is located in Africa, typically little of its success has been attributed to black people, but rather to those who migrated from the Middle East. Any other significant information about the history of my people tended to start with, we were slaves. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. A certain kind of shadow lifts. They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America originally published in 1976 was written by professor Dr. Ivan Van Sertima. Van Sertima states near the end of the book that all civilizations are capable of independent invention, and that he aims to place his claims on the spectrum between diffusionism and isolationism, or the idea that cultures separated geographically are capable of inventing similar things without interaction between the two. On 7 July 1987, Van Sertima testified before a United States Congressional committee to oppose recognition of the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's "discovery" of the Americas. Columbus was quoted before as noting that the natives sometimes painted themselves black, so for all we know the black people being referred to were people who were painted black as opposed to black skinned people. This is not a romantic idea. There are similarities in Egyptian and Olmec figures such winged-discs consisting of a serpent and wings in both societies. I knew that the subjext was suspect. It was with the coming of Columbus that the twilight of the red and black races began. Both men supported their artistic theories with slides of the sculptures and modern Africans and Middle American Indians -- leaving the audience to decide for themselves between truth and the appearance of truth. This was all that I could recall being formally taught. [5], Van Sertima completed his master's degree at Rutgers in 1977. Anthropologists, archaeologists, historians and linguists alike have debunked much of the evidence that Menzies used to support his notion, which has come to be called the 1421 theory. Columbus is not just a man, he is a symbol. In this book, Ivan Van Sertima explores his theory that Africans made landfall and had significant influence on the native peoples of Mesoamerica, primarily the Olmec civilization. I noted before that Van Sertimas claims were flawed in some respects, but his arguments were still logical in certain respects and he did attempt to provide documentation for at least some of his claims even if at times the documentation he presented was misleading. It provides further evidence that all great civilizations and races are heavily indebted to one another and that no race has a monopoly on enterprise and inventive genius. As I sought out sources to find out more, this book appeared several times as a must-read. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. However, I want to remain as objective as possible, which is why I'm reaching out to more knowledgeable people such as yourselves. Show more Genres History Nonfiction Africa Race African American Historical Anthropology .more 284 pages, Paperback First published January 1, 1976 They wear the hairs brought down to the eyebrows, except a few locks behind, which they wear long and never cut. Ocean currents such as the Guinea and Canary currents were likely to have aided Africans sailing to America as well. The Eurocentric view of history is being debunked by anthropologic research. "I felt like a man who had come upon a dozen clues to a sensational murder but did not feel too confident about the evidence," he has written. In this book, the author presents evidence and arguments for the existence of black Africans in America before the arrival of Columbus and the beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade in 1492. He employs a number of tactics commonly used by pseudoscientists (Cole 1980; Radner and Radner 1982: 27-52; Ortiz de Montellano 1995; Williams 1988), including an almost exclusive use of outdated secondary sources and a reliance on the pseudoscientific writing of others. Mansa Musa never sailed to America. Many of the cultural pieces of evidence also provide intriguing support to Van Sertimas thesis, though many may legitimately be debated as coincidences or artefacts resulting simply from commonalities in how the human brain interprets the world. It could be dark, bronze people from South America. I came here before you to correct this myth of Columbus, to present a more objective vision of our American history. They noted that no "genuine African artifact had been found in a controlled archaeological excavation in the New World." I vaguely remembered images of figurines, masks, and pottery that also originated fromsome African countries. The psyche of blacks is raised. He was a . (Viera, de Montellano, and Barbour, 1997: 431). He died on 25 May 2009 aged 74. brilliantly [demonstrates] has that there is far more to black history than the slave trade."John A. Williams They Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in ancient America.Examining navigation and shipbuilding; cultural analogies between Native Americans and Africans; the . [24] He was survived by his wife and four adult children. Because the Olmec civilization is one that has been largely shrouded in mystery, there have been a number of theories about the historical roots of the Olmec. They would claim them as west African too if they could. In response to Daniel's review Clarence Weiant, who had worked as an assistant archaeologist specialising in ceramics at Tres Zapotes and later pursued a career as a chiropractor, wrote a letter to the New York Times supporting Van Sertima's work. In 1970 Van Sertima immigrated to the United States, where he entered Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, for graduate work. Should we give reparations to black Americans, being that they, 5500 words Introduction Hereditarians champion Asians (specifically East Asians) as proof of their gene-centric worldviewthat their genetic constitution allows their stellar performance in educational and, 2100 words Many people believe that a thing called the G-spotGrafenberg spotexists. I don't buy it. pic.twitter.com/GRHEgWZkZb. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. In the documentary he says that Mansa Musa is the same person as Montezuma. The Book Review received about 70 letters, the most reader reaction it's had on an issue since the reviewer attacked Robert Frost several yeas ago. In Koning's telling and in Zinn's, Columbus set out to enslave a uniformly gentle people for the sole purpose of enriching himself with gold. There is also a vast body of knowledge to be uncovered about Africa and America. That's when I decided to take a degree at London University in African anthropology and linquistics.". They then raised their discovery to the community at large, but it was quickly disregarded as being impossible under the logic that no Europeans had visited the Americas before Columbus. According to Dr. Van Sertima, whose book "They Came Before Columbus" (Random House, 1976) suggests Africans were in the New World before Columbus's journeys, the mainstream of academia. In Chapter 5, called "Among the Quetzalcoatls", Van Sertima narrates the arrival of Abu Bakr II to an Aztec civilization in Mexico in 1311, describing the Mali king as "a true child of the sun burned dark by its rays" in direct and explicit comparison to the Aztec "sun god" Quetzalcoatl, as Van Sertima writes. First discovered by Charles Spearman in 1904, noting that schoolchildren, 1550 words Introduction The role of the Jews in the slave tradeand in the civil warhas garnered a great amount of scholarly attention. When I thought about it more, I realized that in high school and probably prior I had learned about American History, Western European History, the dynasties of China and Egypt, but what about where my people were likely from? She also planned to publish a book of his poetry.[25]. Also, some other West African countries had been known to both fish by boat and sail. Van Sertima writes about shipping technology, saying that even the most ancient of Egyptian ships were sturdy enough to cross the Atlantic on the currents that run from northwest Africa to the Americas. Van Sertima tells of the emergence of the Mali kingdom and its seafaring ventures, thus providing evidence for sailing capabilities of West Africans. So anything that isnt physical (like the mind/consciousness) cant studied by science. While many found Van Sertimas scholarship flawed, his theory has many supporters. Ancient Egypt is regarded as one of the greatest earliest civilizations that has captured the attention and imagination of historians and laypeople alike for years. Van Sertima was among those who argued that the Olmec had African origins, whereas others such as Mike Xu have argued that the Olmec civilization has Asian roots. Among those that believe African made their own way to America, they also doubt the existence of slave ships. Van Sertima also argued it was Columbus himself who suggested that Africans were in the Americas before he was. EARLY PRESENCE OF BLACKS IN AMERICAS DEBATED. There is a heated online debate about how Black Americans came to America. Evidence indicates that humans originated in Africa. In They Came Before Columbus, Ivan Van Sertima put forward the argument that African people were in the Americas long before Columbus was. From rhinoplasty to cataract replacement, the Hindu vedic text Sushruta Samhita documents the discovery of advanced surgical techniques centuries before they found their way into the operating theaters of western Europe. [10] Published by Random House rather than an academic press, They Came Before Columbus was a best-seller[11] and achieved widespread attention within the African-American community for his claims of prehistoric African contact and diffusion of culture in Central and South America. The others are unidentified. There are, of course, numerous problems with these claims: most importantly, the evidence that Van Sertima provides in his book to prove an ancient African presence in America is highly lacking. . Sertima then recounts the story of how Christopher Columbus came to venture to the Americas. There are Egyptian-like pyramids in the Americas and mummified persons similar to those in Egypt. The book deals mostly with his arguments for an African origin of Mesoamerican culture in the Western Hemisphere. On the cover of the book, John A. Williams writes that Van Sertima has demonstrated that there is far more to black history than the slave trade. Quite obviously, there is more to black history than the slave trade, but Van Sertimas storytelling is not it. As the dogma slowly gets pushed out of science and history we are coming to realize that people of all. If you are experiencing difficulties logging in or are a subscriber getting a paywall, please try one or more of the following steps. "'Roots' does not do that. They paint themselves black, and they are the color of the Canarians, neither black nor white. In addition to his creative writing, Van Sertima completed his undergraduate studies in African languages and literature at SOAS in 1969, where he graduated with honours.[6][7][8]. I really have no idea. If there were an African presence in the Americas, he asked, "why do we not find more African stylistic artifacts?". Note how these claims are eerily similar to claims of white gods that, for example, the Aztecs and Maya speak of. They follow that quote with this statement: "In spite of the above evidence, education and curriculum development literature are generally silent on the Olmecs" (pg 5). Recently, I've been handed a book called "They Came before Columbus" by Ivan Sertima, which asserts that Africans had discovered and traded with the native people of the Americas long before Columbus arrived. In the library of a Princeton professor, he came across three volumes, "Africa and the Discovery of America," written by a Harvard Linquist, Leo Weiner, and published more than 50 years ago. Zinn perpetuates Koning's smears. ( Van Sertima, 1972: xiv; They Came Before Colombus) Ivan Van Sertima is a fringe Afrocentric theorist (they all are), who argued that there was an African presence in America, long before Colombus set shore in the Bahamas in 1492. pic.twitter.com/sKrVa4a2JQ, I figured you say something like that.Are these people mixed with "native American" or are they just Black indigenous indians? The occasion was his first visit to the United States from Britain, where he was working in 1970. The accounts of people such as Christopher Columbus himself, Spanish travelers, and Herodotus, though, are harder to debate. He devotes Chapter 8 to discussing the beneficial innovations and flourishing of culture under Nubian rulers in Egypt. Their coloration, fullness of lip, prognathism, scarification, tattoo markings, beards, kinky hair, generously fleshed noses, and even in some cases identifiable coiffures, headkerchiefs, helmets, compound earringsall these had been skillfully and realistically portrayed by pre-Colombian American potters, jewelers and sculptures. But Van Sertima always defended his book. [5] Except for a brief mention, the book had not previously been reviewed in an academic journal. White ppll pulled up to America and realize the whole country was filled with black ppl. [18] 1337 Words. [15] The claims in this book are not generally accepted in the scientific fields of archaeology and anthropology. 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. During the 1960s, he worked for several years in Great Britain as a journalist, doing weekly broadcasts to the Caribbean and Africa. Van Sertimas research points to the Negroid features of giant stone heads in Mexico, our of which have been radiocarbon dated at 814 B.C. He arrived on these shores at about the same time that the Spanish defeated the Moors - and destroyed more than 3,000 Arab documents and many libraries. In They Came Before Columbus, Van Sertima argues that Egyptian journey to the Americas happened during the rule of the 25th dynasty, which was the Kushite dynasty that ruled Egypt. However, their African ancestors had survived relatively dark-skinned (carrying the old haplogroup C) in Oceania for over 100,000 years Continue Reading More answers below Rasager Aa Mansa Musa never traveled to the Americas, so how could he have been Montezuma? There are some problems with this theory. Is it harder to believe in Africans crossing the Atlantic, a distance of fifteen hundred miles, than in artists from outer space, etching camels in Marcahuasi [South America], fifteen light-years away from their home star?. Van Sertimas scholarship was flawed in many respects, but he made an attempt to challenge the racist scholarship of his time. Last week came purported evidence that the Chinese admiral Zheng He sailed his great fleet of junks round the world a century before Columbus, Da Gama and Magellan. [6] Also in 1979, Van Sertima founded the Journal of African Civilizations, which he exclusively edited and published for decades.[6][12]. This book provides numerous arguments for the existence of black Africans in America before the start of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Van Sertima spent his career pushing pseudoscience of this type, even editing and publishing most of his own work in his own edited journals (because other journals would not accept his fringe work). 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