Black History Facts

Uncategorized February 1, 2021

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Beethoven, the world’s greatest musician, was without a doubt a dark mulatto. He was called “The Black Spaniard”. His teacher, the immortal Joseph Haydn, who wrote the music for the former Austrian National Anthem, was black as well.

Imhotep of ancient Egypt, was the real Father of Medicine. He lived about 230 B.C. and Greece and Rome had the knowledge of medicine from him. In Rome, he was worshiped as the Prince of Peace in the form of a black man. His Ethiopian portraits show him a Negro. Imhotep was also Prime Minister to King Ioser as well as the foremost architect of this time. The saying. “Eat drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die”, has been traced to him. Hippocrates, the so-called “Father of Medicine” lived 2,000 years after Imhotep.

In November 15, 218 B.C., Hannibal, a full-blooded Negro, marching through conquered territory in Spain and France, performed the astounding feat of crossing the alps. With only 26,000 of his original force of 82,000 men remaining, he defeated Rome, the mightiest military power of the age with a million men, in every battle for the next fifteen years. Hannibal is the father of military strategy. His tactics are still taught in the leading military academies of the United States, England, France, Germany and other lands.

Abraham Hannibal, captured as a slave in Africa, was adopted in Russia by the emperor Peter the Great as his son and was taught military engineering. Later Hannibal became tutor to the heir to the throne, and commander-in-chief of the Russian army. He died in 1782 at the age of 90, owning vast estates and 2,000 white slaves.

Toussaint I’Ouverture, leader of the Haitian independence movement during the French Revolution. He had planned after Haiti was freed to go to Dahomey, West Africa, and use it as a base from which to fight the slave trade. For this purpose, he saved 6,000,000 gold francs, equivalent to that sum in dollars now, which he entrusted to Stephen Girard, an American ship captain. After the treacherous capture of Toussaint, Girard would not turn over the money to Toussaint’s family. During his nine months imprisonment, Toussaint was tormented by Napoleon’s agents to reveal the hiding place of the money. Later Girard, a Frenchman by birth, became the richest American of his day. He left millions on his death in 1831, for the founding of Girard College in Philadelphia, stipulating that it should be for whites only. He also gave money to buy coal for the poor of Philadelphia, with the same provision.