CLASS OVERVIEW

Learn about the original people of Haiti the Tainos and how they lived their lives until the arrival of Christopher Columbus.

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Haiti sits in the middle of the greater Antilles which are islands in the northern part of the world near the Americas.

Before 1492, Haiti was divided into five separate kingdoms: Jaraqua, Maguana, Marien, Maguana and Highey.

There were five Chiefs or Caciques. Many more had ruled before Columbus.

In their governing system, there were always mixed genders in governing. There could not be all men or all women chiefs, there must always be at least one male chief, if the other chiefs were all women or one woman chief if the other chiefs were all men, to rule Haiti.

The chief’s job was to keep order, make sure people were taken care of with enough food and dwellings.

They’re dwellings, called Bohios, consisted of homes that were circular for very large families, up to 10 to 15 men and families. The Chiefs would have rectangular homes and they could have up to 30 wives and all live together.

The Tainos used hammocks the same as we use today and they were made out of cotton. 

They also used canoes for transportation and the canoes could hold up to 10 to 15 people and larger canoes would hold up to 150 people depending on the size. Many people came from South America using these kinds of canoes. 

The Tainos were very agricultural people and the main part of their diet was the Yuca plant which looks like a potato. They made it into cassava and also made bread. They also had fish, and would barbecue the fish. They also hunted for small animals. They had cooking Huts. The women were the agriculturalist and the men would hunt and fish; they also hunted turtles. 

They had a language and had a lot of symbols to add to communications. Petroglyphs were carved on walls and stone. 

They had birds for pets and also they use the birds as Messengers. They train the birds to go across the island to give warning and messages.

The Tainos believed in many gods and they represented their gods with Zemis or Cemis. They would sculpture their gods in a triangular form. They had strong beliefs in ancestors and in the Chiefs. They use these Zemis for guidance. The main Zemi was for water and food which sustain them for their survival.

The Tainos were a peaceful people, but they had an enemy that would come and raid their villages called the Caribs. They used bows and arrows and clubs to defend themselves. The  Caribs were sometimes known to be cannibalistic 

Chief Anacona, who was the only woman Chief at the time to provide balance,  was from the bloodline of chiefs. She was talented with poetry and dance and was very athletic. She was honored all over Haiti. She was also a religious expert as well. After her brother’s death she went with her husband and became ruler in her kingdom.

There was no jealousy in their kingdom. They were peaceful people living a simple life. No one owned any land and the land belonged to everyone. 

In 1492, Columbus came to Haiti where Anacona was Chief. When Columbus’s ship came to the island, it wrecked, the Tainos jumped in the ocean to save the wreckage thinking that the people might need what was floating in the ocean. As Columbus saw the kindness of the Tainos and the gold that they had around their necks and wrist, he began to think that these people would be easy to make servants and get gold from them. Columbus had at least 100 people with him on this voyage.

Columbus and his people built a fort and named the island Hispaniola for Spain.

Columbus return back to Spain and left the 30 people in Haiti where they were making the Tianos dig for gold, disrespecting them and treating them very harshly.  At the beginning, the missionaries and soldiers held a Christmas dinner for everyone but the Taino’s realized that these people meant them no good and killed all of them by burning down the fort. 

When Columbus return, he brought back hundreds of Conquistadors to enslave the population and take all the gold. The Conquistadors ruled with terror and killed the Tainos with cruel acts of violence. They burnt the Chiefs alive. 

The priest tried to convert the people.

Before Columbus, the Tainos were 500,000 to 2 or 3 million, after Columbus, the number was below 50,000 after murders slavery disease, rape and other atrocities. 

There was fierce resistance by the Tainos and some went up in the mountains.

There was a new governor in the area who was cruel and crushed the rebellion with much cruelty. He used the lies that things would change but that’s what they were, lies. There were two chiefs who were brothers who wanted to speak to the king of Spain and were told that they were going to be brought to the King but either they were killed on the ship or the shipwreck but they never got to Spain. 

Anacona prepared a party for the Spanish to offer peace for her kingdom and the Spanish came but they closed the Tainos up in the building and set the building on fire. Anaconda was rescued. They told Anacona if she would become a Christian and marry the governor, that her life would be spared and she said no, and they killed her. 

After all of these experiences there were no full-blooded Tainos left in Haiti after Columbus.

1. Alexander Pushkin is known as The Father of Russian literature.

2. Yasuke was known as the African Samurai of Japan.

3. St. Augustine of Hippo was one of the most influential men the Christian church has ever known. Quote: Pray as though everything depends on god. Work is so everything depends on you.

CLASS OVERVIEW

Learn about the Black Caesar and Black Popes.

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THE BLACK EMPERORS OF ROME: ROMAN EMPEROR CARACALLA (KARA-KALLA)

Ivory Bust of Emperor Caracalla: British Muesum Emperor Caracalla – By Oguejiofo Annu
It was Bob Marley who sang that “2000 years of history could not be wiped away so easily.”
Lucius Septimius Bassianus (April 4, 188 – April 8, 217), commonly known as Caracalla, was a Black Roman Emperor who ruled from 211 to 217.
Caracalla was the eldest son of Septimius Severus, the first black African-born Emperor of Rome. But before Septimius Severus, there had been other Roman-born black Emperors of Rome. This story of the other black emperors of Rome will be explored in another write-up, but for now we focus on Caracalla.
Unlike his father Septimius Severus, Caracalla was born and raised in Italy. After the death of his father, he ruled jointly with his younger brother Geta until the latter’s death in 211.
Caracalla’s reign was notable for the Constitutio Antoniniana, granting Roman citizenship to freemen throughout the Roman Empire. That act laid a foundation for a peaceful multi-ethnic, multi-cultural Empire that Rome was to become.

Caracalla was mean towards the military incursions of the Goths, the Parthians and the Tartars, and he took brutal and extreme steps to suppress those invaders from Turkemenistan that were sorely troubling the cohesion of the Roman state.
A modern-day British historian Edward Gibbon, a descendant of the Goths, referred to him as, “the common enemy of mankind” because of the massacres he authorized in various parts of the empire.
In AD 213, Caracalla went north to the German frontier and subdued the Alamanni tribesmen who were causing trouble in the Agri Decumates. Due to that feat the Senate conferred upon him the title of “Germanicus Maximus”.
In AD 216, Caracalla took on the Parthians, a related tribe of the Goths, (the Parthians are the ancestors of the modern day Farsi-Iranians) who were causing problems on the southernmost flank of the empire. He tricked the Parthians into believing that he accepted a marriage and peace proposal, but then launched a series of blistering attacks on the Parthians when their guards were down. The thereafter ongoing conflict and skirmishes became known as the Parthian war of Caracalla.

The baths of Caracalla were the largest public baths ever built in ancient Rome. To put it in historical perspective, the central room of the baths was larger than St. Peter’s Basilica. It could easily accommodate over 2,000 Roman citizens. The bath house opened in 216, complete with libraries, private rooms and outdoor tracks. Caracalla ordered the building of those baths that are named in his honour.
Caracalla was assasinated by his body-guard while travelling from Edessa to continue the war against Parthian. He died on April 8, AD 217.
It is important that Africans should remember and celebrate Caracalla and his family line, i.e. the Severan Dynasty, because as black Africans, they were us and we are them.
By the dint of their heritage, they were part of our legacy, and their attainments represented part of our unfolding tale of greatness, of towering historical achievements, of courage, regency and inimitable genius.
The descendants of the Goths who conquered Rome, and now control historical narratives, would want you to believe that they were the real Romans. Through centuries of selective narration and faking of historical artefacts, they have largely succeeded in hiding the central role of the Africans in the defunct Roman empire.
They hide the facts that the Goths and the Parthians (the ancestors of the present day Germans, Russians, British, Spanish, Italians, and Iranians…the Aryans!!!) were the mortal enemies of the dark Ibero-Maurisian Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Libyans, and Numidians, Mauritanians, and Saharans, the original owners of western Europe. They promote a fake and false notion that Rome was a so-called white created civilization affiliated with their Gothic ancestry. But this is a lie!
Black Roman Emperor Karakala The memorials of Caracalla, Septimius Severus, Geta, Maximinus, and a long line of Black, Moorish, African Emperors of Rome reject this lie. We must revisit the Roman Empire and salvage the Black ancestors and Emperors that have been covered by the global western academic conspiracy.
Again we chant, blessings on the memorial of the Severan Dynasty, they were the “naigre” Emperors of Rome, from Africa. We will be meeting more Black Roman Emperors in the next series.

African Popes

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AFRICANGLOBE – During the selection of the pope, many scoffed at the idea that one of the 12 Black cardinals would be picked. However, it would not have been a first. There have been three African popes: Victor (183-203 A.D.Born in Africa, Victor was the son of a man named Felix and an unnamed mother. He continued to use his given name after becoming the pope and inspired two other men to also use the name, Victor. Before becoming the pope, Victor was a bishop. He likely worked in Leptis Magna, which was an ancient city in the Carthage region. He may have spent some time in Tripolitania too. The Church does not know much else about his early life. Gelasius (492-496 A.D.
Pope Gelasius I was the bishop of Rome from 1 March 492 to his death on 19 November 496. Gelasius was a prolific author whose style placed him on the cusp between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. His predecessor Felix III employed him especially in drafting papal documents. During his pontificate he called for strict Catholic orthodoxy, more assertively demanded obedience to papal authority, and, consequently, increased the tension between the Western and Eastern Churches.and Mechiades or Militiades (311-314 A.D.). Pope Miltiades (Greek: Μιλτιάδης, Miltiádēs), also known as Melchiades the African (Μελχιάδης ὁ Ἀφρικανός Melkhiádēs ho Aphrikanós), was the bishop of Rome from 311 to his death on 10 or 11 January 314. It was during his pontificate that Emperor Constantine the Great issued the Edict of Milan (313), giving Christianity legal status within the Roman Empire. The pope also received the palace of Empress Fausta where the Lateran Palace, the papal seat and residence of the papal administration, would be built.
All of them have been declared saints, that is, the Catholic Church feels certain that all three went to heaven

1. Name a musician who was of African descent.

    Answer: Beethoven and Hayden

2. Name Five things about Saint Saint Nicholas.

     Answer: 1. Black 2. Wealthy 3. A Bishop 4. Loved children 5. Generous

CLASS OVERVIEW

Learn about Beethoven and other musicians of African descent  and the real Saint Nicholas known to most as Santa Claus.

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(Franz) Joseph Haydn[1][2] (March 31, 1732 – May 31, 1809) was an Austrian composer. He was one of the most important, prolific and prominent composers of the classical period. He is often called the “Father of the Symphony” and “Father of the String Quartet” because of his important contributions to these genres. He was also instrumental in the development of the piano trio and in the evolution of sonata form.[3][4]

Ludwig Van Beethoven – Dec. 17, 1770 – March 26 1827 One of the greatest composer in the world. Composed music for African European youth who were musicians called Krentzer Sonata.

George Bridge tower – 1778 – 1860 was a black violinist and composer and performed many times with Beethoven and encouraged him to compose the Krentzer Sonata 

St. Augustine

St. Augustine was a Black Man – Saint Augustine of Hippo was perhaps one of the most influential men the Christian church has ever known. Born in the middle of the fourth century, Augustine’s conversion, life and work are a testimony to how Jesus Christ saves sinners.
Quote of saint Augustine : Pray as though everything depends on God. Work as though everything depends on you.


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Santa Claus was an European Moor – By Oguejiofo Annu
December 26, 2010

Moorish St Nicholas

Santa Claus is a shortened form of San/Saint Nicholas. He is supposed to be this easy-go happy fat Nordic fellow (Pale skin man) from the North pole yelling ho..ho..ho.. and as he merrily brings the cheer of the Christmas season to all and sundry.

Who is the real Saint Nicholas?

Nicholas was probably born during the third century in the village of Patara, in what is now the southern coast of Turkey. He was born of very wealthy ethnic black Anatolians of the ancient Roman Empire. He was one of those ancient and dominant black Moors of Europe that you only fleetingly come across in today’s western history, because the Gothic Europeans would hide the true Muurish history in Europe.

St Nicholas

Nicholas’ wealthy parents, died in an epidemic while Nicholas was still young. Being a devout Christian, he followed the words of Jesus to “sell what you own and give the money to the poor.”

Nicholas used his whole inheritance to assist the needy, the sick, and the suffering. He was made the Bishop of Myra while still a young man.

The high office of Nicholas at such a young age speaks to the dominant role played by Moorish black Anatolians and Africans in creating the church as we know it today.

St Nicholas

It is a historical fact that most of the early and very famous bishops of the church, who lived and gave their lives for the church, were either Moorish Africans or Moorish diaspora.

The Icon of Moorish Apostle of Christ St Peter
Saint Peter
The icon of Peter the first apostle depicted as a Moorish black man in Rome
Archbishop John Chrysostom, Pope Leo the Great 400-469 AD, Pope Mithilades, Bishops of Rome, Saint Peter the Bishop of Alexandria 300 – 311 AD and innumerable Saints and Martyrs were all Muurish people of African descent.

John Chrysostom
John Chrysostom
Generosity of San Nicklaus

Bishop Nicholas was known throughout the land for his generosity to those in need, his love for children, and his concern for sailors and ships.

Under the Roman Emperor Diocletian, Bishop Nicholas suffered for his faith, was exiled and imprisoned.

After his release, Nicholas attended the Council of Nicaea in AD 325, where he worked with other early fathers of the church to establish the standardised christian doctrine of today.

The passing of the real Santa Claus

He died December 6, AD 343 in Myra and was buried in his cathedral church, where a unique relic, called manna, formed in his grave.

In the picture here that follows, one sees the funeral of St Nicholas.
Funeral of Saint Nicholas

The discovery of this liquid substance, which was said to have healing powers, fostered the growth of devotion to Nicholas. The anniversary of his death became a day of celebration, St. Nicholas Day, December 6th (December 19 on the Julian Calendar).

The fake snow-flakes they call Santa Claus

Today, the western pagans descendants of Gothic and Slavic conquerors of Rome and Christianity have built up an idolatrous image of Odin, the god of the Goths and the Norsemen, and have passed it off as the real Saint Nicholas.

The real St Nicholas

Modern joke of a Saint Nicholas or Santa Claus:

This image of the Gothic idol Odin, is what is passed off around the world as Santa Claus. But for those who have ears and eyes, Odin the pagan god of the Goths, had nothing to do with and nothing in common with the pious and devout life of Saint Nicholas, the young, Moorish Bishop of Myra, one of the early fathers of the church.


Moorish St Nicholas
To know your history is to know thyself

1. Where was Saint Maurice from?

     Egypt

2. What army did Saint Maurice fight in?

      Rome

3. What did Saint Maurice not do?

      Kill Christians 

4. Chevalier de Saint George played what instrument?

     Violin

5. What was Chevalier de Saint George known for and became knight?

     He was known as the greatest swordsmen in Europe.

CLASS OVERVIEW

Learn about Saint Maurice of Egypt in Rome and Chavalier De Saint George of France.

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Saint Maurice Copilot Sent by Copilot: Saint Maurice Saint Maurice Explore Certainly! Saint Maurice, also known as Mauritius, Moritz, or Morris, was an Egyptian military leader who headed the legendary Theban Legion of Rome in the 3rd century. He is one of the favorite and most widely venerated saints among that martyred group. Here are some key points about him: Early Life: Maurice was born around AD 250 in Thebes, an ancient city in Upper Egypt (modern-day Luxor). He grew up in the region of Thebes. Military Career: Maurice became a soldier in the Roman army and rose through the ranks. He eventually became the commander of the Theban legion, leading approximately a thousand Christian soldiers. Early Christianity was considered a threat to the Roman Empire at that time. The Theban Legion’s Stand: The Theban Legion, entirely composed of Christians, was called from Egypt to Gaul (modern-day France) to assist Emperor Maximian in suppressing a revolt. Before battle, they were ordered to offer sacrifices to pagan gods and pay homage to the emperor. Maurice and his men refused to worship Roman deities, prioritizing their service to God. Martyrdom: When Maximian ordered the legion to murder local Christians, they refused. As punishment, every tenth soldier was killed (a military practice called decimation). The Theban Christians continued to refuse, and a second decimation was ordered. Ultimately, all remaining members of the legion were executed for their faith. Patronage: Saint Maurice is the patron saint of several professions, locales, and kingdoms. These include alpine troops, armorers, infantrymen, the House of Savoy, and the Pontifical Swiss Guards. You can find more information about Saint Maurice on Britannica, and Saint for a Minute. His feast day is celebrated on September 22.

Chevalier De Saint George

Chevalier De Saint George was born on December 25th 1745 and died on June 10th 1799.

He was born Joseph Bolognese in Balif, Guadalupe.

He was of French and African heritage and was born to a wealthy planter and an enslaved Senegalese woman named Nanon.

After becoming a knight (which is what a Chevalier is) he took his father’s last name of de Saint George and became known Chevalier de St George.

At the age of 7, he was taken to France and at the age of 13, he was educated as a gendarme – which is a military force with law enforcement duties to the King. He also received music lessons of the violin and  fencing kessons.

He joined a new symphony orchestra in 1769 called  Le Concert de Amateurs – consisting of amateurs and professional musicians.

2 years later, he became the concert master and started composing. In 1773 he became the conductor. He became so great, that he was offered the position of conductor of the Paris Opera but because of racism by some of the performers, he was denied the position after they petitioned not to have him because they did not want to take directions from a mulatto.

He conducted a very large orchestra of professionals and amateurs and travelled to London to meet King George III in 1787.

During the French revolution in 1789, at the age of 45, St George served as a colonel of the legion St. George, established in 1792, as the first all black regiment in Europe and the first of its kind defending the French First Republic. He was known as the greatest swordsman in Europe.

Just St George, became a part of the London abolitionist movement and was almost assassinated by four men who he fought off.

He traveled often and had many other musical presentations.

He died of gangrene on June 10, 1799.

1. Charlotte Sophia was married to __________

Answer: King George III

2. Charlotte Sophia started ________ for mothers giving birth. 

Answer: A Hospital 

3. Name one place named after Queen Charlotte 

Answer: Charlottesville, Virginia

             Charlotte North Carolina 

4. Who wrote the book “ The Three Musketeers,” 

Answer: Alexander Dumas

5. Name another book Alexander Dumas wrote

Answer “The Count of Monte Christo” and “ The Man in the Iron Mask”

6. How many pages of work did Dumas produce

Answer: 100,000 pages.

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Queen Charlotte Sophia of England

Charlotte Sophia had Portuguese ancestry which reached back to Affonso the third who married a Portuguese and was the great-grandson of King Affonso the first of the Congo. 

Charlotte Sophia was born May 19, 1744 in Mirow, Germany. Her mother was Elizabeth Albertin of Saxe – Hilde burgh -Hassan and her father was Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg. 

Charlotte Sophia married King George III in 1761 at the age of 17 years old. She became Queen and was Queen of the United Kingdom when Ireland and England United in 1801. She had 15 children, 13 live to be adults. 

During her marriage, her husband would have mental health as well as physical issues and at those times, she would be the ruler. The queen loved music by Handel and Bach and was a botanist at heart, planting trees all around. The queen purchased Frogmore house in Windsor Palace in 1792 as a country retreat. It was part of the celebration for King George III for his Golden Jubilee in 1809. 

Mozart’s opus number 3 was dedicated to the queen when it was published on January 18th 1765, opus means work. 

Queen Charlotte Sophia helped to establish a hospital for mothers giving birth to children, the oldest maternity hospital in Europe.

Queen Charlotte Sophia died November 17th 1818. She is the great-great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth and the great great great great grandmother of King Charles. Prince William’s daughter is named after her, Charlotte.

All places in America named Charlotte was named after Queen Charlotte Sophia.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexander Dumas was born July 24th 1802 and died December 5th 1870 in Normandy, France. 

He was a French novelist and playwright. His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors. 

Many of his historical works were serials including the “Count of Monte Cristo,” “The Three Musketeers,” and 20 years after those works he wrote “The Vicomte of Bragelonne,” and 10 years afterwards, he wrote “The Man in the Iron Mask.” 

Since the early 20th Century, his novels have been made into almost 200 films.

Dumas, first started writing plays which were successful, then he also wrote magazine articles and travel books. His works totaled 100,000 pages of written work. 

In 1840, he founded The Theater Historique, in Paris. 

His father was in the French military and did very well, after coming to France from Haiti, which was called Saint Dominguez at the time.

His father was very supportive of him. 

Alexander Dumas moved to Belgium where he stayed for several years, then Russia a few years then Italy, where he started a newspaper, “La Independent,” before returning to Paris in 1864.

He was married to Ida Ferrier. He had a son name Alexandre Dumas.

He had two sisters, Marie Alexandrine and Marie  Alexandre.

He possibly died of a heart attack.

His home is now a museum, The Chateau de Monte Cristo.

1. Name five things you learned about The Moors

Answer: Any answer you can find from the former Study guide and that was mentioned.