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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Could I be a descendant of the biblical Hebrews of the Old Testament??


I always question and wonder why some African were enslaved and some was doing the enslaving. I always thought that either my ancienter where the weak ones and the other ones were the stronger/richer ones (making me feel like I came from a weak bloodline of people). I mean why would someone enslave their own family members or bloodline...Unless the people that were enslave where not from the country and that they were a different bread of people or different bloodline in a unfamiliar land ( explain easy capture). See I would like to think that my ancestors come from West Africa, well that is what I was taught. But then I would have to accept that my bloodline was either weak, poor or not a smart group of people. Even when I visit Nigeria slave trade ports and talk to some of the people there no one could tell me why certain people where enslaved and other tribe weren't. The closet explanation I have received that made sense to me was that members of the Original African Hebrew Israelite Nation of Jerusalem (or the African Israelite, for short) believe that, after the Roman expulsion of the Jews from the land of Israel, many Jews migrated to West Africa. From there, their descendants were transported by slave ship to the United States, where the group began in the 1960s. According to this view, the biblical Hebrews of the Old Testament times had multiracial descendants. So this made me think that people of color that were part of the slave trade are descendants of the Israelite??

Facts are:

  • Interactions between the Hebrews and African nations are documented throughout the Old Testament.
  • There is a group of  Jews living in Africa today who practice a very ancient form of Judaism. Unlike the modern Original African Hebrew Israelite Nation of Jerusalem, the Beta Israel group of Ethiopia is accepted by the majority of Jews and by the nation of Israel as being historically Jewish.
  • It was fairly common for Africans to keep other Africans (as in prisoners of war) as slaves, but this was nothing like the slavery that took place in the US, Caribbean, West Indies, South America. Slavery in Africa was more of an indentured servitude with a beginning and an end. Many slaves ended up marrying into the families they served. What’s important to note here is that slaves maintained their humanity and were not “born into” slavery. The child of a slave was born free. “Africans sold their own people as slaves” is a stock argument White Americans use when the subject of slavery comes up.
  • Africa was not a country. Africans were not selling “their own”, they were selling their enemies, just as the Greeks and Romans once did. Africa, then as now, was made up of different countries. They were no more selling “their own” than, say, “Europeans” were killing “their own” during the Holocaust.
  • Most African countries did not sell slaves and some even fought against it. But because Europeans back then could control the supply of guns there was little Africans could do to stop it.
  • The Transatlantic slave trade was on a much greater scale than anything the Africans or anyone else ever did in the history of slavery. Countries were destroyed and millions died. Over 12 million were sold in less than 400 years, something so huge that it changed the genetic map of the world.
  • The Transatlantic slave trade was racist. The African slave trade, for all of its other ills, was not that. Neither was the Greek and Roman slave trade. So slavery in places like Haiti, Barbados and America was much more cruel.


Whether or not Black American have Jewish ancestry is not the most important issue to me. Even if it could be conclusively proven that a Black American are partially genetically descended from the biblical Israelite, the question for me is what do we do now if we are the descendant of the biblical Hebrews of the Old Testament, "God Chosen People". I mean if you ask me it seem more believable that African American are the real people to fulfill all the blessings and curses in Deuteronomy 28 (look it up and compare it) then what we call Jews in America.

Below I posted pictures and videos of my experiences at the slave trade in Badagry Nigeria.











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