I would suspect that nearly everyone knows Christopher Columbus was not the first person to discover America in 1492. There were several groups of people that came to "the New World" before he did- far too many to count. I know the Vikings traveled to America really early. Africans did too. And there are many more.
â Many of the supposedly Indian words recorded by Columbus and the earliest commentators upon his voyage are traceable to African origin, particularly to the language of those of the River Niger. In further support of this argument, the practice of smoking tobacco did not originate with the American Indians, as universally believed, but was an imported habit adopted by him; peanut, yams, manioc, and sweet potatoes were cultivated and eaten by Africans before they were known by the American Indians.â
There is additional evidence that suggests that Africans arrived during and before the 1400's. Some of them came on slave ships... and some didnâ t.
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