Were blacks in America before whites?

Question

I know the Vikings reached Newfoundland (Vinland) in 1000 AD but someone told me Blacks reached the Americas before Whites. Is there any proof of this and if so it would obviously have to be older then 1000 AD?

Answer 1

I believe "someone" was talking about how escaped black slaves (from a Spanish colony the Caribbean, I think) temporarily colonized what is now the USA before any white settlers came from Europe. I read this in the book _Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong._ It's a great read. "Someone" may have been saying that the first settlers in the US were black, and not talking about the whole western hemisphere. The book also talked about how Olmec statues in Mexico look like Africans, but most scholars do not believe that Olmecs were descended from Africans.

Answer 2

Some anthropologists and historians maintain that Native Americans were descended from Asian people who crossed into America using the Bering Strait. People of African descent were indeed first brought the the Americas as slaves, first mainly to the Carribbean and South American colonies (particularly Brazil) and then later on to the North American colonies. In this type of discussion, it's also important to remember that both North and South America were already populated by many advanced civilizations even before the Vikings turned their ships west.

Answer 3

I've never heard anything about black people reaching America before the Vikings. The darker skinned native Americans were here first- maybe that's what your friend meant?

Answer 4

I only elect to commence with the aid of asserting i think of you're racist. ok, shall we commence from the tip. Why do American Indians not *****? perhaps because of the fact we regularly WIPED THEM OUT. the eastern do not *****, perhaps because of the fact Japan now OWNS us with all the DEBT we owe them. And as for black human beings, they DO comprehend it, yet do 2 wrongs make a appropriate? whilst they offered slaves for the time of warfare, it became a bad element, yet two hundred years of oppression and slavery is a lot worse, and the racism that still maintains right this moment drives their self righteous fervor. the promoting of slaves for the time of warfare became a consumer-friendly practice, and became basically the initiating. might I additionally remind you GENIUS that the Africans weren't the 1st human beings the Europeans tried to enslave, and it became basically a remember of time until now the picked another undesirable race to enslave. They tried community human beings and Mexicans, yet that did not artwork because of the fact whilst they escaped they knew the continent, however the undesirable Africans had no such luxury, worlds faraway from their homestead HEMISPHERE. hello chum, how approximately next time you open your mouth, you think of until now you do it?

Answer 5

was it the asians who crossed through alaska to canada to america , now known as native americans first? or the vikings... but Blacks were not here before whites, they brouht slaves over though.

Answer 6

The indians were here first, then the white man, then the black man. And many more races after that.

Answer 7

Possibly - The Olmec civilisation in Mexico left huge statues with ***** heads.

Answer 8

No. I'm not sure where this would have come from. The first Afro-Americans came here as slaves.

Answer 9

I think it was a mix of people I can't say if any race was in America first.

Answer 10

First it was native americans, then europians came, then they brought in africans as slaves. That's what I remember of my history class.