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05 Nov

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…

03 Nov

Free Negro Owners of Slaves Included Nunes and Levi (Signature Sephardic Jewish Names)

Truth Ministries0 CommentsCommentaries, Historical References1900, 1924, America, Jewish, Negro, Portuguese Jews, slaves, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Source: Free Negro owners of slaves in the United States in 1830, together with Absentee ownership of slaves in the United States in 1830 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) 1924 A.D. Note: Page v of the Free Negro owners source. Note: Page vi of the Free Negro owners source. Note: Page vii of the Free Negro owners source. Note: Page 3 of the source. Note: Page 18 of the Free Negro source. This source highlights the historical point that although the vast majority of blacks in America were enslaved, there was a relatively substantial amount that was not. The Nunes and…

02 Nov

Some Of the Names Associated with Afro-Iberians were “Spanish blacks”, “Portuguese”, and “black Portuguese”

Truth Ministries0 CommentsCommentaries, Historical References2000s, 2016, Black, Caribbean, Light, New World, Portuguese Jews, Servants, slaves, Tangomaos, The University of North Carolina Press, White, Women

Source: Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 (The University of North Carolina Press) 2016 A.D. Note: Page 144 of the source. Note: Page 147 of the source. Note: Page 148 of the source. This source talks of Afro-Iberians being called "Spanish blacks", "black Portuguese" or just "Portuguese" and how in many cases they came to the Caribbean as freemen and women. These were different names for Spanish and Portuguese Jews. This source is key because it shows that some blacks came to the New World as freemen and freewomen and not as slaves or indentured servants which goes against…

02 Nov

Mathias de Sousa was Possibly a Portuguese Jew in Colonial Maryland

Truth Ministries0 CommentsCommentaries, Historical References16th century, 1981, 2000, 2000s, 2001, 2021, African, America, American, Americans, Benjamin, Black, Christians, commentary, Day, European, giving, Jewish, judged, Lot, Mary, Mulatto, nation, Negro, Negroes, North America, Portugal, Portuguese, Racism, Research, River, Servant, slaves, Sun, support, The Baltimore Sun, Women

Source: Defining race and identity in early Md. (The Baltimore Sun) 2001 A.D. From the source, " BLACK HISTORY Month offers an opportunity to spotlight the history and achievements of African people and their descendants in America. In Maryland, we celebrate the lives of men and women like Benjamin Banneker, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. It may seem ironic that in observance of the first Black History Month of the millennium, we question the identity of an official Maryland first: Mathias de Sousa -- widely celebrated as the first black man to vote in the Maryland legislature. We do not question…

30 Oct

Ghanian Priest’s Prophecy-White Men Would Come From Beyond the Great Water

Truth Ministries0 CommentsHistorical References, Supernatural1900s, 1990, Africa, Deuteronomy 28, Deuteronomy 28:48-49, Ghana, Joel 3: 3-6, Kumasi University Press, Negroes, Okomfo Tuda, Old Testament, scattered, Sea, slaves, Supernatural, Transatlantic Slave Trade, Water, White

Source: The African Traditional Priest and His Work (Kumasi University Press) 1990 A.D. Note: Page 19 of the source. Note: Page 29 of the source. Note: Page 36 of the source. Note: Page 36 of the source. This source tells of several interesting things about Ghanian priests. For example, Ghanian priests perform libation just as Old Testament prophets conducted. The conclusion of this body of work includes a prophecy that Okomfo Tuda, an Ashante priest, gave. The prophecy stated that "a time would come when the Ashantehene's power would pass into the hands of the white man who lived far…

29 Oct

Romans Categorized Peoples by the Physical Appearance, Not By Parentage or ‘Blood’-Roman Perception of Mediterranean Phenotype was ‘albus or leukos’ (White) But Not Too White

One For All0 CommentsHistorical References, Research & Studies1993, African, American, Black, Blind, Copper, Egypt, Egyptian, Ethiopians, Europeans, evidence, Generation, Homer, Image, Images, Indian Ocean, Jews, Libya, Libyan, Light, Mediterranean, Moors, Mulatto, nation, Negroes, North, Racism, Red, Roman, Romans, Sea, Skin, slaves, Statue, studies, Study, Swarthy, Virginia Tech University Libraries, Visions, West, White, Woman

Source: Roman Perceptions of Blacks (Virginia Tech University Libraries) 1993 A.D. From the source, "Abstract. Certain preconceptions about 'blacks' in predominantly 'white' societies have distorted modern visions of the ways in which Aethiopes were perceived in Roman society, resulting in much misinterpretation of the relevant texts. In Roman perceptions categories like black African, white, 'paleface' and swarthy were neither communities nor socially defined 'races' with ascribed group-statuses. Categorisation was determined by the physical appearance of the individual person, not by parentage or 'blood'...Wiesen saw this text as evidence of a Roman perception of blacks as natural inferiors of 'the white…

28 Oct

Elements of Black Athena that Its Critics Agree on

One For All0 CommentsHistorical References2014, Black, commentary, East, Egyptians, evidence, Greeks, Lot, Mediterranean, Roman, Romans, slaves, Southern Europe, studies, University of North Carolina Press, White

Source: Black Athena Revisited (University of North Carolina Press) 2014 A.D. Note: Page 105 of the source. Note: Page 106 of the source. Note: Page 122 of the source. Note: Page 123 of the source. Note: Page 124 of the source. Note: Page 124 of the source. Note: Page 124 of the source. Note: Page 125 of the source. Note: Page 125 of the source. Note: Page 125 of the source. Note: Page 126 of the source. Note: Page 127 of the source. Note: Page 148 of the source. This source confirms the black presence of the ancient Mediterranean Basin.…

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