Africa and the Discovery of America Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Africa and the Discovery of America Vol. 3<br><br>No archaeologist no historian no philologist will be more startled by the data collected in this book than I have been in their discovery. While I to a certain ex tent foresaw the end toward which the presence of Africans in America before Columbus must ultimately lead in the social and religious orders I did not allow myself in my first two volumes to be in?uenced by any such considerations but confined myself to an analysis of the documentary evidence as to the American origin of cotton tobacco the bread roots and wampum.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.