Category: Hidden History

1749 AD: Negroes From Whydah Were The Best Slaves

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Query III Why are the Negroes from the Gold Coast and Whydah the most valuable, and so necessary for the subsistence of sugar plantations? Answer “Gold Coast and Whydah Negroes are hardy, and are enured to labour in their own country; and will go to the hard work necessary in sugar plantations, as soon as they are purchased by the planters; which is not the case with other Negroes from Angola, Calabar,…

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1621 AD: Judaism Was “Rampant” On Sao Tome (West Africa)

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“Iberian rulers altogether, others found that the Portuguese communities that were being formed in the Atlantic were more tolerant of religious difference. Many Jews wen either to north Africa and settled in the fortified Portuguese port towns, or to the islands and the mainland trading posts, from where they could put down roots in the…

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1614 AD – 1754 AD: Laws Governing Black and Mulatto Sephardic Jews

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“A review of the relevant communal ordinances from around the Sephardic Atlantic will allow us to continue the discussion on another level and address the contradictions I have raised. Ascamot, Amsterdam: Ascamot, Suriname: By the 1780s the ascamot accept as congregantes any colored children “who carry the name of, or are known to be descended…

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2022 AD: Igbo Declared Descendants of Ancient Israelites

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QUESTION: There exists a claim that the Igbos of Nigeria belong to the Children of Israel. There are millions of inhabitants in and out of Igboland who belong to the Igbo tradition. Much has been written about the Igbo traditions, which attest to the claim, including historical and anthropological works, detailing lore, customs, sociology, philosophy,…

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1492 AD: Sephardic Jews Put Into Slavery – An Eyewitness Account of The Jewish Expulsion From Spain

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“And in the year 5252 (1492), in the days of King Ferdinand, the Lord visited the remnant of his people a second time (the first Spanish visitation was in 1391), and exiled them. After the King had captured the city of Granada from the Moors, and it had surrendered to him on the 7th (2d)…

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1864 AD: Congregation of Negro Portuguese Kidnapped And Sold Into Slavery

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More Info “Some of the kidnapping tales that still linger on this coast, show the straits into which, at times, men were driven for a cargo. At Annobom, where the people are Negro Portuguese, they are ever looking forward to hearing mass from the mouth of a priest. A Spaniard learning this, dressed up a…

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1820 AD: Israelites Believed To Be In Central Africa

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“Yahoodie, a place of great trade.” This place is reported to be inhabited by one of the lost tribes of Israel, possibly an immigration from the tribe of Judah. Yahooda, in African Arabic, signifies Judah. Yahoodee signifies Jew. it is not impossible, that many of the lost tribes of Israel may be found dispersed in…

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1932 AD: Rare Image of Black Arabians

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Bertram Thomas’ guides across Arabia as he wrote his book. This picture is a rare look at black Arabs, which are largely absent from the current historical narrative.
Source: Archive.org Author: Bertram Thomas Year: 1932 AD Title: Arabia Felix: Across The Empty Quarter of Arabia Page: 298
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1500s AD: Portuguese Jews Condemned To Slavery

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More Info “Afterwards, the large owners of feudal estates introduced with the white peasantry a certain number of black slaves, by whom a slight strain of dark blood was transmitted to the other settlers. The Jews expelled from Portugal at the beginning of the sixteenth century were also condemned to slavery and distributed over various…

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1843 AD: The Jews of Portugal Are Very Dark

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More Info “The Jews have assimilated in physical characters to the nations among whom they have long resided, though still to be recognised by some minute peculiarities of physiognomy. In the northern countries of Europe they are fair, or xanthous. Blue eyes and flaxen hair are seen in English Jews ; and in some parts…

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