Michelle got this book from the DC museum of African history. It’s written in academic style, to mostly a linguistic, anthropology, history audience. It’s broadly about evidence that there were africans that sailed to the North and South Americas before europeans.
Introduction
I found the story of how the author came to this book interesting. He read a book that was written decades ago but not widely accepted, felt the pull of the idea but also had suspicion, broke the reasons into that the evidence wasn’t sufficient but the question is worth pursuing. I would also like to break down my initial feeling to some idea or reading into the question worth and the evidence possibility. This leaves more breathing space between any particular work and the potential of the subject.
The Secret Route from Guinea
This chapter reads like a story starting with Columbus’ perspective. I was surprised that messenger ships can get to the head ship while the head ship is only staying short whiles at stops — is Spain and Cuba that close? It feels floppy, like things were not as hard as I thought (eg going from Spain and stumbling into North America).