Did you Know? Africans came to America before Columbus
Did you know that the Martin- Rice Family history is a small but significant part of the African-American experience. Also African-American history is a brief but great chapter in African world history. Therefore, to learn and know African world history is to know our family history.
Did you know… Africans Came to America Before Columbus
...Africans came first to America, not as enslaved persons, but explorers, traders, visitors, and built with the Native Americans the great Olmec civilization in Mexico.
...Africans from the 25th dynasty of Egypt around 751B.C.E. and Africans from the Mali Empire around 1311 B.C. came to America.
...Eleven colossal heads in southwest Mexico carved out of basalt portray men with thick, heavy lips, full cheeks, broad nostrils and helmets like those worn by African soldiers of the 25th Dynasty in Egypt.
...The very first American pyramid or step temple at La Venta, the same site as the colossal heads is like the Step Pyramid in Egypt (Africa)
...The skeletal remains of African skulls found at Olmec sites are clear evidence that Africans were present in the Americas.
… That Columbus was the first person from Europe to acknowledge that there were Africans already in America. Afterwards many other Europeans reported seeing them.
Olmec Heads in Mexico Pyramid in Mexico
