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[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] All right. Shalom, shalom. Hey family, it's B and Israel. Uh, we are returning for our second installment of Black History, the Inquisition. So this is part two of Black History, the Inquisition. So what we're going to do is going to do a couple of things: one is we're going to do a quick review of uh, the first video, and not necessarily a quick review, but well, I guess it is a quick review, but I just want to um, point out some things that we didn't necessarily point out in the first video. And then after that, of course, we'll get uh, rolling into our second series of references. Because what we like to do is just simply read references. Uh, we may give a bit of commentary over the top, on top of that, but other than that, at the end of the day, it's reading references. Okay. All right.
So with that being said, I do want to give a big a bit of a backdrop for uh, uh, for this this video. So I'd like to start off with Deuteronomy 28. And if most of you aren't aren't familiar with Deuteronomy 28, it basically outlines the blessings and the curses uh, for the children of Israel. So basically whenever uh, when Israel entered into an agreement with um, the Most High Yahweh, um, you know, Yahweh outlined blessings and curses. The blessings were there if Israel would do what they were supposed to do, and the curses were there if Israel didn't do what they were supposed to do. So basically, we know that the curses uh, befell Israel, the children of Israel. And according to Deuteronomy 28, you can actually use the curses to find or identify the people uh, of the children of Israel today, because it's supposed to be a Perpetual uh, curse. So one of I did want to point out one of the uh, the curses in Deuteronomy 28, and you can actually should be able to see it there on your screen, and one is Deuteronomy 28:32, and it where it says thy sons and thy daughters. So as we do a quick review, I want us to focus in on the children of the Jews that are on the west coast of Africa. I want us to focus in on the children; just pay attention, pay attention to references about children, Sons and Daughters, because uh, if we look, if we kind of if we cross-reference that with Deuteronomy 28, it says thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and Thine Eyes shall long and failing with longing for them all the day long, and there shall be no might in thy hand. So basically, one of the curses that would befall the children, the true children of Israel, would be that their sons and thy daughters would be given unto another people. Okay.
Now let's take a look at another uh, of the of the many curses in Deuteronomy 28, and this particular curse says Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou Thou shalt not enjoy them, for they for they, you know, the sons and daughters shall go into captivity. Did you catch that? Let's read it again. Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but Thou shalt not enjoy them, for they the sons and daughters, for they shall go into captivity. Okay. So now that we have that backdrop, I just wanted to kind of lay that Foundation. Let's go into our review of the references that we uh, reviewed within within our first uh, video; not all of them, just a just a handful. So in our uh, first reference review, we're going to just talk about John Ogleby once one more time. And if you didn't don't remember John Ogleby, he is one of our high-value references, and it's the reason why we refer to him as a high-value reference is because of the time period that his reference comes from and and also who the reference is. So this reference comes from the 1600s, and also it comes from John Ogleby, who at the time was the cosmographer and Geographic printer of The King, and I believe it was King uh, Charles II. So John Ogleby would be someone that we would want to know uh, get an idea of what his thoughts were, because he would have, you know, we would expect him to have the ear of the king at the time time. So not going to spend a whole lot of time with the references and and the page numbers that sort of thing; if you want that, just you know, take a peek at the other video, but we're just trying to help speed things up here. So I'm just going to go straight to the uh, quote. So the quote that we want to review uh, here with John Ogleby is is it's within the the red uh, rectangle on the screen, but you can see where it says, let's see if I can find my place here, it says that John III, King of Portugal, sent a Colony thither, you know, sent a, so John, King of Portugal, sent a colony thither above 200 years before. So 200 years before the writing of the book that we're reading now. So this book was written in I believe was 1670 uh, so 200 years before that was in the 1400s, and we know of course King John was around, the King John of Portugal was around during the U the 1400s. So that so far so far so good. So it says so uh, John the king of Portugal sent a colony thither above 200 years before, so in the 1400s John sent sent a colony to the west coast of Africa to uh, uh, St Thomas, it says, well, to the west coast of Africa, it says whom though the UNH wholesome Heir destroyed, yet the place was not left desolate, for he sent new inhabitants who first settled Guinea, and I got to have a map of Guinea next in Angola, and lastly on the island of St Thomas. So he sent new inhabitant who settled those three places, and it said that so they might they might be better used to the air that the said King sold all those Jews for slaves that refused to embrace the Roman religion. Okay.
So we understood that uh, the king of Portugal sent the Jews to the west coast of Africa; he sent them to three places: Guinea, Angola, and St Thomas, because they refused to embrace the Roman religion. And it said and caused their children, now this is what I wanted to key in on uh, on this this go around, it says and caused their children to be baptized from whom, so from the children coming thither in great numbers, so did you catch that? Let me back up a little bit. It says and caus their children to be baptized from whom, from these children coming thither, and where where is thither? The west coast of Africa in great numbers. Then it says most of the present inhabitants were descended. Okay. So just want to key in on the fact that the CH it was the children that were coming to the west coast of Africa in great numbers, and that it was the their uh, John Ole's belief that most of the present inhabitants were descended. Okay.
So now that we have that, I just want to show you and kind of refresh your your memory on the the uh, west coast of Africa in Guinea. So here's a a outline of the Guinea uh, territory in the west coast of Africa, just in case you're um, confused as far as what it what it looks like. So here's what it looks like; Angola is uh, you know, right below um, Guinea there, so it's pretty much the the whole west coast of Africa. So this entire territory, all this yellow here were um, that's where the Jews were sent, and at the at the descendants of these guys um, were the children; it was the children that were sent here uh, from the west from uh, Portland OR from the king of uh, Portugal. Okay. All right. So let's go to our next next uh, uh, reference here just for a quick review. And so this is another high-value reference that we went over last time, but again we're going to focus on the references to the children this time. So this comes from uh, the official chronicler of King John uh, uh, Garcia the the Rendi. So Garcia was the official chronicler of King John. So we also want to know what uh, Garcia would have to say, right? He's not just some guy; he's uh, he's a a official Chronicle. Now it says, I'm going to skip down to the bottom to the second uh, underlying uh, red on the line here where it says, well, I started in the sentence here, it says in 19 I'm sorry, in 1493, those who could not pay had their children taken away from them, baptized by force and deported to St Thomas or Salto in order to be raised as Christians. All right. So we see there where it says had their children taken away from them, baptized by force and deported; they were sent to St Thomas in order to be raised as Christians. So again, we see that it was the children that were taken away from the from the Jews, from the parents, and sent to the west coast of Africa. If you can kind of just sit back and think about that for a while of what that must have looked and felt like, you you know, you you'll get you'll get an idea of how uh, traumatic that had had to have been. But again, this is uh, due to Pro this is uh, can be found in Deuteronomy, right? Cuz we read that before Deuteronomy 20 28, I believe it was 41, it said that the children would go into captivity. So here, this is we're actually seeing it play out in these references. Okay. All right.
Now going over to our uh, third quote here, and this is again it pretty much uh, says the same thing where it says um, I'm going to skip down to the last uh, sentence in this in the underlying section here where it says nor was this all, since the king rested from their parents all children between the ages of 3 and 10. And what we what we noted before was that in this reference it says 3 and 10, and U previous other references we see that it it was increased from from 3 to 10 to three in uh, children in the uh, young adults in their teens, and then it was later increased to three and young adults in their 20s. So that uh, explains how you get uh, great numbers of these uh, Jewish children on the west coast of Africa. All right. So now that we've established that, I just wanted to make sure that you keyed in on the fact that it was the children that were sent over to the west coast of Africa, and that um, knowing that you can begin to see how a people, a race of people, can be um, began to be separated from their history, right? Because they're separated from their parents and they're uh, being raised uh, to be something else. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] All right. So um, now on to our our next set of references. So for for this reference, what we're going to do is that we're going to start off with a contemporary reference, and then we're going to move to our um, our uh, Antiquity references. So now that we know that the Jews were sent to Africa, right, um, they weren't they were sent uh, by the Portuguese and the Spain and and they were from Al also the expulsion edicts in in uh, Europe, you know, that they uh, basically, you know, gathered on the west coast of Africa. Then sometimes, you know, the question is, well, did anyone know about it, you know, other than the people that dump that dumped them there, the people that that placed them there, did anyone know about it? Well, what we found that is that you know, there are some contemporary researchers that that have you know, run into the truth, so to speak. So one example would be uh, Alan Godby. You know, Alan Godby was a uh, a researcher uh, a Duke, he a Duke professor, professor in the early 1900s, and in his book uh, The Lost Tribes of Myth, Suggestions Towards uh, Rewriting Hebrew History, uh, in the back of his book, I'm just what I'm showing here on the screen is just U on the back of his book, the map, you can see where he uh, identifies locations of uh, black Jews in Africa. He calls them, you know, Neg Jews, Morish Jews, F FAS Jews, and Yam Jews and Berber Jews. So in his book, you know, he he identifies, of course, you know, um, you know, Angola Jews. So the Angola Jews, you know, we read those references in the previous video, but uh, Alan God Godby does a good job of of uh, showing you exactly where those Jews are. Same thing with you know, s St San or St Thomas juice. Um, and this is interesting uh, view here of the uh, Nigerian uh, Jews; it shows you where the Levite cities were located off of the the [ __ ] River. Then you also see B Ephraim, that basically means sons of Ephraim, and then below that you also see where it says Terracotta heads pattern uh, after 500 BC in the foreign quarters of Memphis. So the takeaway here is that the um, uh, you know, contemporary researchers like John John I'm sorry, not John uh, Alan Godby and others were are a were able to identify where um, these uh, Israelites were on the west coast of Africa.
Now I'm going to review a reference by Hannah Hannah Adams uh, before as a background here. So Hannah Adams, you know, she wrote in her book in 1800s as well; she wrote that the U that the Jews that lived in Portuguese Portugal and Spain uh, professed to be from the tribe of Judah. So what that means is that the Portuguese and the Spanish understood that the Jews in their territories were from Judah. Why is that significant? Well, when we look at maps of the west coast of Africa, and you may have you may have seen this this this map before, but the the thing here is that you know, this is basically the Slave Coast; you can see where it says Slave Coast here at the bottom, and then at the top there's another name for it; it says Kingdom of Judah or Slave Coast. So there was two names given to this territory, but the question is, who gave this sliver of land that name, like who called this uh, this area here the Kingdom of Judah? Just think about that for a moment. So and if you're you know, probably if you're guessing that it was made possibly the Portuguese, well let's let's not guess, let's look at the references. Now this reference comes from a book called Africa and and its inhabitants, volume two, and this comes from page 410. Uh, do want to point out that above I do have a map here; it's it's another French map; I didn't have the details here, but you can also see that it's also uh, calling the Slave Coast the Kingdom of Judah. So um, if you look at a reference on page 410, it says, skipping to the second um, sentence, it says the old writers called it Judah, and its inhabitants were said to be Jews, while the neighboring River of Lala, whose real name is Ephra, became the Euphrates. And of course, if we take a look at our map at the top, you'll see if you can look closely at your screen at the top of that uh, yellow circle, it says Euphrates there. So that we do see that we can confirm that in maps; just want to point that out. So uh, if we keep reading, it says during the flourishing days of the slave trade from 16 to 18,000 were annually transported from of Judah as the Portuguese called this place. Okay, let's stop right there. So we it just said that the port that the Portuguese called this place, and we we'll read later it was the Portuguese slavers that called this called the place Judah. Now why is that significant? Well, a couple of things: one is so this is this uh, reference confirms that the it was the Jews that were on the west coast of Africa, and it also confirms that it was the Jews that were uh, being sent as slaves. Remember, says this during the flourishing days of the slave trade from 16 to 18,000 were annually transported from the Judah. Okay. So we know that so this tells us that the Jew it was the Jews that were sent into the transatlantic slave tree; it was the Jews that were placed on the west coast of Africa, and it makes sense that this place would be called the Kingdom of Judah by the Portuguese because they the Portuguese uh, placed them placed the Jews there uh, under um, uh, was it King John? King John. So we read those references that said as much, right? So it's not us saying that; it's the references that are that are saying. All right. Now going to our next quote, and this quote comes from you can see the the name there, but this is a this is a a a quote from a French book, and it comes from page 272, and let's read it. It says Judah waer and has different names there, but a Judah is an ancient city frequented since the 16th Century by Portuguese slave traders who gave it its name. All right. So let's read that again. It says uh, Judah is an ancient city frequented since the 16th century by Portuguese slave traders who gave it its name. Its inhabitants were called Judaic, and indeed they were regarded as a remnant of the scattered tribes of Israel. All right. So we can see here that the Portuguese gave the Slave Coast the name Kingdom of Judah. Okay. Just wanted to establish that. And as as a cross-check, you know, this is just another reference kind of thrown in there just to um, hammer home the point that the these Jews were were uh, were in fact black Jews. Um, let's take a look. It says uh, I'm going to see three paragraphs here, but I'm going to go jump down to the third I'm sorry, the second paragraph in the uh, the sentence where it says a remarkable fact in the history of Leango and the Empire of Congo is that the country, according to a statement which was fully credited by Oldendorf himself, a writer of most correct judgment and of unimpeachable veracity. So this is a an upstanding guy, right? Is basically what the uh, William Arm Armistad is saying. It says contains many Jews settled in it. So to answer the point or to answer the question, did other did they know that there were Jews there on the west coast of Africa? And what we're finding out is that the answer is yes. But let's keep reading. It says who retain their religious rights and the distinct habits which keep them isolated from the other nations, though the separate, let's pay attention here, it says though thus separate from the African population, they are black. Okay. So that's pretty straightforward; we don't need any interpretation around that, right? So they are black and resemble the other Negroes in every respect as to physical character. So basically, they look like them, you know, but they're Jews. It says it is probable an illusion to to this case that Pennington, now Pennington is another author during the time in his book which is called Textbook, says the descendants of a colony of Jews originally from Judea okay, settled on the coast of Africa are black. Okay. So just want to make sure that we know that these Jews are are the uh, are the black Jews. Okay.
Okay. Now with the Jews being on the west coast of Africa, you know, we saw that on some maps it was called the Kingdom of Jud Kingdom of Judas or the Slave Coast. Um, what you may not know is that there were there were other names that were given to that uh, territory or that area, and these other names actually shed light on who the people were there. Okay. So you'll see on the I have a map on the screen, and you can see where it says um, it's giving you three names for this region, you know, so Youan Lamb Lamb or Negro L. So Soan Lamb L or Negro Lamb. So I just wanted to let you be get aware that of those names there. So let's read a reference about uh, Soan. So see your reference on the screen screen; that's the uh, title in the book uh, authors on there as well; you can see the publication date, and um, this comes from a page as close to the front of the book, you know, front of the book has a bunch of Roman numerals before it gets into the the numbering of the book. So I have that at the bottom here, but just wanted to point out where it says the Jews of So Udan are, according to my eformance, divided into many large and small small tribes, with whose names they are unacquainted; their mode of life in some countries is pastorial, but the towns are filled with
Traders and artificers of that Faith who gain substance at their, uh, several Employments in the service of the Muslims, under whose government they live as vassals. So we just took it; we, we're just looking at a map, right, where it says So Udan. So now we're reading where, you know, the Jews are, you know, the Jews are there. So this is just another confirmation that the Jews were in So Udan. And I'm going to skip down a bit, just kind of speed things up, where it says, the lands occupied by these people cover a wide extent between M and cavi. So basically, from this, this quote, this quote tells us that there's a, that the Jews were, it's kind of spread out over a vast, vast territory, okay? And, um, and then it, it gives a quote from Bash now. Basha is a, uh, is an African, uh, you know, Black African in African Africa, and you know, he tells us, you know, why the Jews are there. It says, uh, they, uh, let's see, they are not esteemed like us, for they are a people hardened in their sins and obstinate in their infidelity. It says, the anger of God is upon them. So they knew that God's anger was, was upon them, and it says, and therefore are they given to the rule of the Muslims. So they, it was their understanding that God's anger was upon them because they had broke God, God's laws, and that they were given to the, to the Muslims to do, to do with as they will.
And then, um, if you keep reading in that book, if you actually get a copy of that book, you'll see where Bashall then goes to, to describe some of the, the colors of, of the Jews. One of the things I, I did learn as I was, um, uh, researching, you know, what, and what you'll find out the same thing is that whenever there's a, an, an African giving a description of color, uh, Africans tend to, to be a bit more descriptive; like they, they, um, differentiate, differentiate between the hues of brown, whereas if, uh, you know, there's a European, uh, writer giving a description, they tend to be more, you know, black and white, you know, not necessarily, uh, acknowledging the different gradients there. So because of that, you know, I have a little blur up here at the bottom of the, uh, this reference just to point out that the Basha goes on to describe the Jews as, as brown colored instead of the pitch black color of sash Shanti. All right, side note there, but just an FYI. Okay.
So some of the other names of the, uh, the Jews on the west coast of Africa. So we saw where, you know, we had So Udan there, and we read about the, about Soan. So but most people don't know that the Jews were also called Caffrey. And what was significant about Caffrey? So Caffrey was, um, a name that was given by the Portuguese. Right? In the Portuguese, it says, uh, cafre or cafres, that is to say, Lawless or Outlaws. Okay. So that, that was the meaning of, of the word Caffrey, and that match up with what we've learned so far and what we've read so far in our references, because remember the, the, um, Portuguese and the Spanish and some of these other countries, they were sending their, these Jews over as prisoners, you know, because they were law, quote-unquote, lawbreakers. But, um, so it makes sense that they would call them caffes, or they, they would call them Outlaws. Okay. So again, things are, we're, we're noticing that our references are starting to line up because we, we have a good understanding of what happened, um, in the, uh, in the history leading up to this, and so that therefore when we, when we read works like, uh, works from Leo Africanus, and you know, we're not surprised when Leo Africanus says, you know, some also think that the people called Caffrey or cafres at this day who are Gentiles draw their original from the Jews, being environed on every Side by idolators, they have by little and little swayed from the law of Moses. We just read about that, right? And so are they become as it were insensible idolatrous. On the other side, the Jews being wonderfully increased in Spain passed one after another into Africa in moritan and disperse themselves even to the confines of numibia, especially by means of traffic. So we know that traffic in these old books means slavery. Okay. All right. So our, our, we're finding out is that our references are all lining up; we're starting to see a uniform, uh, history, uh, picture of History, uh, to, to be, uh, formed here. All right. All right.
And this is just another quote, um, just to kind of call, just to call attention to the description of the Jews, um, it's actually another Oden Oldendorp quote where it says, a fact worthy of the attention of Travelers is that, according to Oldendorp, the kingdom of Leango contains black Jews scattered throughout the country; they are despised by the Negroes who do not even dare to eat with them. Okay. All right. So I won't go too much into that one, um, just want to make it through these, these slides. My goal is for this, uh, presentation not, it's not to be too long here, so, uh, we're getting closer, close to the end of it; just want to run through these, um, references. So U, this reference, you saw the, hopefully you saw the, uh, title, title, uh, screen there, but here it says, Yehudi, a place of great trade. This place is reported to be inhabited by one of the Lost tribes of Israel, possibly an immigration from the tribe of Judah. Yehuda in Arabic signifies Judah; Yehudi signifies Jew. It is not impossible that many of the Lost tribes of Israel may be found dispersed in the interior regions of Africa when we shall become better acquainted with that continent. All right. Okay.
And, um, I do want to end on this, uh, particular quote, and for this quote was called A Private Journal Kept During the [ __ ] uh Expedition. So in the 1800s there was this guy William Simpson; he was going into, uh, a company, an expedition to the, um, you know, modern day it's called Niger River, but back in the day it was called [ __ ] River. So he was going to accompany an expedition, and prior, uh, to embarking, you know, he was given, you know, two letters from two, two Chief Portuguese rabbis in London, and, um, thought it'd be interesting just to take a look at the letter that was given to, uh, to William Simpson as he went to explore the Niger River or the [ __ ] River delta. Let's see, uh, let's take a look at this letter, and it says, it reads, Peace to our Brethren the children of Israel in all place of their habitations. I, the servant of the Lord named David the little, is he who writes this in order to inquire after your welfare and the number of Souls and wishes also to know your occupation and what books are to be found amongst you after the conclusion of the Talmud. Now that part is interesting because if you're familiar with the Renaissance age and, and, um, or whatnot, you know that the, um, uh, that there was a lot of book burnings that occurred back then. So the fact that he's asking for books right off, right off the bat, uh, doesn't really, uh, bode well for whoever he's, he's going to run into. Okay. All right. So, so that's that. Now, uh, for the last part of this video, and I'm going to close this out with, um, uh, by looking at the slave manifest.
So now that we've read some, we read references that show that the Jews were placed on the west coast of Africa, so most people know that these slaves were sent from the west coast of Africa, but very few people know that the slaves were actually placed onto the west coast of Africa first. The Jews were placed on the west, west coast of Africa first, okay, uh, in addition to those that, that, um, migrated from, um, Jerusalem, um, but specifically those from the Inquisition which was going on at the time, and those that were expelled from the, you know, the different places were placed on the west coast of Africa, then turned around and sold as slaves. Okay. All right. So, um, now let's take a look at what we're going to do here; we're just going to do a quick exercise where we learn, um, how to identify Israelite, Israelite, Israelite names when we see them. Now to do that, we're just going to take a, we're going to use the Strong's Concordance, and we're going to run through the Strong's Concordance, and we're going to see that the, um, the things Israelite, the children of Israel like to do is to put Yah's name in their name. So the, the prophets understood that, you know, you have Isaiah, Jeremiah, so they understood that, and they, they, and they had a direct communication with, um, with the Most High. We look at Isaiah, right, and we, and we look at the, um, um, I'm going to butcher this name here, so I'm just going to read where it says, Brother of Yah, and an Israelite name, and but just, just notice where it says, the name of several Israelites. Yah has grasped the name of several Israelites. The next one, Yah is mighty, the name of several Israelites. Yah has helped, the name of a number of Israelites. So there's a lot of people, um, during that time, put Yah's name in their name, a lot of Israelites. Let's see, B, Yah has built up, the name of several Israelites. See that Y's an Israelite of Jeremiah's time. Okay, Yahin, the name of a number of Israelites. So you can see it kind of goes on and on and on. I'm going to kind of shortcut this here, uh, click through it, but just know that a good way to find out, um, or to identify Israelite names is just to look at, see if it has Yah in the name, and also L, um, what of my, um, uh, priest called that out as well, that the L was also used, one of my L pointed out, L, L, like Joel, Ezekiel, L, uh, used in the names of, of several Israelites as well. But for this exercise, we're only going to take a look at Yah, like what names have Yah in it. So if we take a look at the, um, you know, the Transatlantic slave trade, uh, database and do a quick search for Yah, just to see if, if, you know, the cross-check to see if that there's, were Israelites that were on those ships, you know, we do find the names of several Israelites, and this is, we're in the A's right here again, the names of several Israelites. So we see the same pattern that we, that we find in the Bible and in the Strong's Concordance; we find that exact same pattern in, um, in the Transatlantic slave trade, uh, database of the people that were on the, on the ships. So with that being said, we'll end this right here; we'll call this Part Two, um, the, again, the purpose of Part Two is just to, uh, confirm the, the Jews on the west coast of Africa. Part One, uh, you know, we read the references that talked about the Jews being placed onto the west coast of Africa, and in this video we talked about the, um, the Jews, you know, confirmation that the Jews were on the west coast of Africa by other, other references. Uh, thanks again for listening, uh, again feel free to, to continue your research, and Shalom.