“THE SEMITIC NEGRO”
“THE SEMITIC NEGRO”
Natufians (c. 12,000–9,500 BCE), who inhabited the Levant just before Jericho’s founding, carried Y-DNA haplogroup E1b1b…
Jericho is the oldest known city in the world in terms of archaeological evidence of early urban life and permanent human settlement…
UNESCO World Heritage Centre recognizes Jericho (Tell es-Sultan) as “the oldest town in the world” due to early evidence of urban planning and permanent structures…
Archaeological Institute of America notes the site contains remains “from the earliest stages of human settlement”
Jericho is archaeologically the oldest known city based on settlement age (~9600 BCE)
“The dwellers in Ribha (the Jericho of old) are of the negro type; they have black woolly hair”
SOURCE;
(The Scattered Nation and Jewish Christian Magazine; 1867)
This 19th century observation reflects what a Western observer at the time saw among the local population of Jericho…
If Jericho’s population in the 19th century was “of the negro type”…
…then it is even more likely that the same or similar population lived there 12,000–9,500 BCE, when the city first emerged…
Natufians, the people who occupied the Levant just before and during Jericho’s earliest phases, carried Y-DNA haplogroup E1b1b which is of African origin and still dominant in many Nilotic and West African groups today…
Studies of their skull morphology (Craniofacial traits) show affinities with tropical African populations — broad noses, prognathism, and wide faces — traits that align with this 19th-century observation…
Jericho is less than 200 miles from the Sinai, directly linking it to North and East Africa…
During the Green Sahara periods, migration between the Nile Valley and the Levant was fluid…
In early prehistory, “Middle Eastern” and “African” populations were not sharply divided — they were interconnected…
If 19th century observers found people in Jericho with “black skin and woolly hair,”
then the probability is significantly higher that 12,000 years ago, when the city was first founded by Natufian descended peoples with African Y-DNA E1b1b and skull traits, the population was even more distinctly of African origin — not less…
The Tuareg have a high prevalence (50-80%) of the paternal haplogroup E1b1b1b-M81, which is commonly found among Berber speaking populations…
“A large portion of the brown and black tribes of Northern Africa, as has been shown, belong to the same family as that which first originated commerce, which invented the alphabet, produced the sublime Hebrew poetry and Arabian science…
The Semitic negro can certainly never be considered by the worshippers under a Semitic religion as inferior in blood to themselves…
Still another group of peoples, both brown and black—many fully black—are descendants of that family which erected the ancient empires on the Euphrates, and which, unknown centuries ago, built the pyramid-tombs on the Nile, and founded the gloomy art, the artificial civilization, and the science of Egypt…”
SOURCE;
(Charles Loring Brace, ‘The Races of the old world’; 1863)
The passage states that “a large portion of the brown and black tribes of Northern Africa… belong to the same family” as those who created early commerce, writing, and science…
The Tuareg are a Berber-speaking people historically found in the Sahara and Sahel, particularly in Algeria, Mali, Niger, and Libya—all part of North Africa…
They are often described as having dark or brown complexions…
It also states that “another group of peoples, both brown and black—many fully black—are descendants of that family which erected the ancient empires on the Euphrates… and built the pyramid-tombs on the Nile.”
This implies that some of these groups, possibly including the Tuareg and Hausa (who are linked to Afroasiatic languages), descend from the same lineage that built civilizations in Mesopotamia and Egypt…
Black African peoples are commonly categorized into three major ethnolinguistic groups:—Bantu, Nilotic, and Cushitic…
However, a fourth distinct group — the Chadic peoples (Hausa) — should also be recognized, as they do not fall under any of these three classifications…
Additionally, the Fulani represent a unique West African Atlantic group within the Niger-Congo family, distinct from Bantu, Nilotic, Cushitic, and Chadic populations, and merit recognition as a separate category…
Among the many ways in which so called blacks have been the great pioneers and originators of mankind are the following:—
(1) We were the original explorers and settlers of practically all parts of the world, following the dispersion at Babel
(2) We were the first cultivators of most of the basic food staples of the world, such as potatoes, corn, beans, cereals, and others, as well as the first ones to domesticate most animals
(3) We developed most of the basic types of structural forms and building tools and materials
(4) We were the first to develop most of the usual fabrics for clothing and the various sewing and weaving devices
(5) We discovered and invented a wide variety of medicines and surgical practices and instruments.
(6) We invented most of the concepts of basic practical mathematics, as well as surveying and navigation
(7) The machinery of commerce and trade-money, banks, postal systems, and so forth—was developed by us
(8) We developed paper, ink, block printing, movable type, and other accouterments of writing and communication
If one traces back far enough, he will find that practically every other basic device or system needed for man’s physical sustenance or convenience originated with us…
Truly, so called blacks have been the pioneers of mankind in a most amazing way…

