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In the book, They Came before Columbus is a must read for anyone seeking knowledge about the humiliation and ridicule of blacks by Ivan Van Sertima highlighted the tainted lies being taught to us by the Western world in order to justify their crimes of slavery and colonialism. Van Sertima examined the fact and found cultural similarities between America and Africa such as languages, transportation of plants, cloth and animals. Evidence of physical and cultural presence of Africans in Early America precisely showed that they migrated to America whether planned and accidental. According to Columbus’s own writings, people living in the Indies told him that “black-skinned” people traded gold-tipped metal spears. Columbus then sent samples back
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