Blacks here before Columbus?

Question

Where is evidence

Answer 1

The white people are hiding it

Answer 2

There is no evidence that I have ever read, and no report of any from any reputable source.

Some people think the Carthaginians might have made it to Central America, and they were Africans of a sort, but there is not much evidence to support even that.

Of course there were Asians and Europeans here before Columbus. The Vikings and the Irish knew of the Grand Banks fishery half a millenia before Columbus got lost, and the Asians crossed the land bridge long before that.

Answer 3

There is some evidence of this, though calling them "Blacks" isn't the most accurate way to put it. "Africans" would be much more correct regarding the evidence and theories.

I've read all about the theories that the descendants of the Olmecs, in ancient Mexico, were of African origin somewhere back along the line and sailed across the Pacific to get there. Similarities of iconography and some anatomical features of stone carvings and other artifacts comprise the main evidence for this theory. It's not widely accepted, and it frankly doesn't explain enough to be a good theory, in my opinion.

Another theory I read about more recently, and it contains accounts of Native Americans who traded with Africans before Columbus. Apparently, there are some tools involved to serve as evidence. I don't have the book with me (on loan to a friend) or I'd just give you the sources it cites, but the book is titled "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James Loewen. He backs up all this with citations. Of course, the evidence isn't great for this either.

Pretty much all the evidence that might point to an African presence in North America before Columbus doesn't pass muster when examined stringently. Either it doesn't make good sense, or other evidence makes much better sense. Still, the idea is provocative, and evidence is evidence, even if there's only a little. It's not my area of expertise, but I'd be very interested to read about something solid on the matter.

Answer 4

There were no Africans in America before the arrival of Columbus, or probably even during and in the immediate future after the voyages of Columbus. In any event, the mass importation of Africans to the Americas did not begin until the Spanish had established viceroyalties and colonies throughout the fertile lands surrounding the Caribbean Sea.

The only inhabitants of the pre-Columbian Americas were the Native Americans, the first of whom migrated from Asia in approximately 30,000 B.C. (though some estimates are much earlier), likely in the pursuit of big game animals, like hte woolly mammoth, which later went extinct. The Bering Land Bridge, present because of the ice age's low sea levels, made this migration possible. Certainly, though, there were no Africans migrating.

Answer 5

There is no evidence to suggest that.

The only previous visitors from the far side of the Atlantic were the Vikings.

The many different Amerindians who lived here migrated from Asia via the Bering Land Bridge.

Answer 6

I doubt that they did, but the book that presents the evidence for it is "They Came Before Columbus", by Ivan Van Sertima.

Answer 7

I thought there was a tribe of native Americans at the southern tip of South America that seem to have kinship with Australian Aborigines. I forget their name. They are very tall. Being black does not imply relationship simply lots of melanin in their skin.

Answer 8

Yes. The "Blacks", before Columbus reached, had started to form their way of life. However, when Columbus came, he discovered new products that were unavailable where he lived. Unfotunately, he spread English diseases that the "Blacks" had not experienced before, such as the common cold, etc..
Calling them Blacks isn't exactly how you should put it. Africans .

Answer 9

No evidence of that. Carthaginians were some type of African; I guess, they lived there, but they were originally Phoenician, from the eastern Mediterranean. Budweiser history is rather made to sell beer.

Answer 10

There is none. Where did you hear that? From the same person that said ancient Africans had developed interplanetary space travel before Europeans came and stole it?

Answer 11

Who give a crap? we all know that columbus wasn't first.