Gold Coast – Black History In The Bible

19 Jan

1749 – Negroes From Whydah Were Considered The Best Slaves For Working The Sugar Plantations

Black History In The Bible0 CommentsHistorical References1700s, 1749, Aloes, Angola, Calabar, Carolina, Cattle, Corn, Gambia, Gold Coast, Maryland, Negro, Sugar Plantations, Virginia, West Africa, Whydah

Source: The Alarm-Bell: Or, Considerations on the Present Dangerous State of the Sugar Colonies (The British Library) 1749 - pg. 8 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 hard, 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, and other parts of Africa, who live…

Sun Worship Amongst African Amazons

One For All0 CommentsCommentaries, Historical References1, 125, 1840, 1910, Abyssinia, Africa, African, Asia, Asiatic, Black, Brown, China, Congo, days, East, Egypt, Equator, Ethiopia, European, evidence, Fish, Generation, Giants, Gold, Gold Coast, Greeks, Groves, Hamitic, Heir, Image, Israelites, Judaism, Libya, Libyan, maps, Mediterranean, Moon, Moors, nation, North, northern Africa, Queen of Sheba, River, Sacred Texts, Sahara, Samuel, Sea, Semitic, Servants, Sheba, Shem, Skin, Slave, slaves, South, southward, Sun, Syria, Transatlantic Slave Trade, Tribe of Dan, Trojan War, West, White, Woman, Women, Yoruba

Source: The Amazons: Chapter VII: Amazons of Africa (Sacred Texts) 1910 A.D. From the African Amazon chapter of the source, "DIODORUS SICULUS, quoting Dionysius the historian, says that there was a prodigious race of Amazons who rose, flourished exceedingly, and disappeared long before the Trojan War--so long before, indeed, that their renown had been obscured by the newer glory of the Amazons of the Pontus. The more ancient race had its origin in Libya, that Africa which lay between Egypt and Ethiopia on the east, the Atlantic on the west, bounded on the north by the classic strip of Mediterranean…

Judaism and Christianity Present In West Africa Before The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Black History In The Bible0 CommentsHistorical References1800s, 1856, Africa, Ashanti, Cambridge University, Christianity, England, Gold Coast, Guinea, Judaism, London, Senegambia, Transatlantic Slave Trade, West Africa

Source: Blacks Jews : The Religious Challenge or Politics Versus Religion (Cambridge University) - Page 233 "J. Leighton Wilson was a missionary for eighteen years in Africa. In his work Western Africa: its history, condition and prospects (London 1856), he states that in Senegambia, religion was a mixture of paganism, Judaism and Islam and that it is difficult to define the areas of influence of each of the three religions. In northern Guinea paganism and Judaism were closely intertwined and in the south there were more traces of Christianity. He based his conclusions on the existence of some customs which…

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