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More Info “Many Jews also are scatter’d over this Region; some Natives, boasting themselves of Abrahams seed, inhabiting both sides the River Niger (Niger River): Others are Asian Strangers, who fled thither either from the desolation of Jerusalem by Vespasian; or from Judea wasted and depopulated by the Romans, Persians, Saracens, and Christians: Or else…
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More Info “But what about the south of this margin of Saharan contacts? In the reign of Jean II of Portugal nearly 700 Jews were taken from their kin and deported to the island of Sao Thome on the west coast of Africa. This island is close to Nigeria, Cameroon and Gabon. Escaping from Sao…
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More Info French (original) “Whydah (Fida, Hwedah, Ouida, Juda ou Ajuda) est une ville ancienne, fréquentée depuis le xvi” siècle par les négriers portugais, qui lui donnèrent son nom. Ses habitants étaient dits les ‘Judalques’, et on les considérait en effet comme un reste de tribus dispersées d’Israël; au Nord, la rivière d’Allala, dont le…
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Source: U.S. State Department Online Archives Date: January 28, 1969 AD Title: Memorandum for the president Author: Henry Kissenger “Biafra (3, 000 sq. miles, 4-6 million). Colonel Ojukwu — 35, British-trained, erstwhile playboy — presides over the popular support and military morale of a people convinced that defeat means extinction. The Ibos are the wandering…
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“The Zondervan Controversy” delves into the confusion surrounding a 1967 AD dictionary entry that implies Negroes are not from the line of Ham. Learn more here.
More Info “The Elamites of Mesopotamia appear to have been a negroid people with kinky hair, and to have transmitted this racial type to the Jews and Syrians.1 There is a curliness of the hair, together with a negro eye and full lips, in the portraiture of Assyria which conveys the idea of an evident…
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Source: Google Books Author: James Rennell Mungo Park Publication Date: 1799 AD Dates Referenced: 1795 AD, 1796 AD, and 1797 AD Title: Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed Under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 Pages: 314 – 316 More Info “Exclusive of the…
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More Info “While it was regarded as merely a myth for many years − appearing in several written and oral versions − something striking occurred in the year 880 C.E. that left an imprint on Jewish consciousness for centuries to come. One day, a small, very dark-skinned Jew named Eldad showed up in the Jewish…
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Many of us have heard and even sang Kumbaya at some point in our lives, but most people are not aware of the origin of the song or the meaning of the words. The earliest known recording of the song was in 1926, but some believe it is of a much older and of West…
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Source: Perseus Digital Library Author: Tacitus Date: 69 AD – 96 AD Title: Histories 5.2-5 “A few authorities hold that in the reign of Isis the surplus population of Egypt was evacuated to neighboring lands under the leadership of Hierosolymus and Judas. Many assure us that the Jews are descended from those Ethiopians who were…
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