Washington Post Mathias de Sousa, an African-Portugese Jew, arrived in 1634 with Maryland's first European settlers, most of whom were Catholics fleeing the religious intolerance of the Old World. De Sousa earned freedom from indentured servitude and, by most historical accounts, had a life barely defined by his blackness. Jesuit priests who had acquired vast tracts of Southern Maryland land to support their missionary work named him captain of a trading fleet. And before becoming the first person of color to serve in the Colonial legislature, de Sousa is thought to have lived at the St. Inigoes Plantation, which until recently had vanished in time.
Continued... Many details about Mathias de Sousa's life have been erased from history. In fact, there is continuing debate over whether he was of African descent or a European mulatto. But that he was a man of color who achieved great success in early Maryland is remarkable in the eyes of most modern historians. He was one of nine indentured servants and scores of settlers who arrived on the Ark, which sailed up the Potomac River and landed at St. Mary's City--the fourth English settlement in the New World and Maryland's capital until 1695.
The Ibos (the majority of so called African Americans) are the wandering Jews of West Africa gifted, aggressive, Westernized; at best envied and resented, but mostly despised by the mass of their neighbors in the Federation - Henry Kissinger.
False. Most African Americans are not descended from these people. And they are certainly not descended from the Jews. Other African peoples have a much better claim to such an assertion. Sorry.
This does not provide any evidence or even claim to suggest that Portuguese Jews were all black. Fail. MAJOR.
Africans are the most diverse ppl on the planet. You can go to Nigeria and see black ppl with whiter skin than yours!
Other than albinos. Many Nigerians have very light skin. Africans are the most diverse ppl on the planet Africa is an important region to study human genetic diversity because of its complex population history and the dramatic variation in climate, diet, and exposure to infectious disease, which result in high levels of genetic and phenotypic variation in African populations. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articl...n,phenotypic variation in African populations.
I have a source that says that all of your claims are Afrocentric fantasies. Have you seen the AI generated pictures all over Facebook from the afrocentrist? Like the ones that show the black royal family in England? Most of what you post sounds just like such fantasy
It's much more pertinent and genuine for an AFROcentric to have something to state about an AFRO-asiatic ppl, more so than a naysaying EUROcentric. Wouldn't you agree..
Africans are the most diverse ppl on the planet Africa is an important region to study human genetic diversity because of its complex population history and the dramatic variation in climate, diet, and exposure to infectious disease, which result in high levels of genetic and phenotypic variation in African populations. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articl...n,phenotypic variation in African populations.
What is it that you want to see exactly? iMean didn't you just get a source for black rabbis in the royal courts of Portugal from the Jewish encyclopedia? There was even a village for these Portuguese Jews called the "negro" village, that the moors previously occupied. These Jews were the lineal descendants of king David