Evidence: The Black Hebrew Israelites Are Not Israel

Evidence The Black Hebrew Israelites Are Not Israel.

I want to stress before I go into this: Is it possible there are black Jews? Yes, humanity has many people mixing peoples, however, generally speaking, the Jews are not Black or any tribe of Israel. I will be doing a follow-up video to this about the consistency of the Black Hebrew Israelites, how they call white people Esau, and other arguments but for now let us talk about the map they use.

Black Hebrew Israelites are a group who use an old 17th or 18th century map which has Juda which is spelled "J U D A" not "J U D A H" This spelling of Juda with "J U D A" we will refer to as Whydah pronounced (Ajuda) which is what it is called.  

Whydah (Ajuda): The name "Whydah" is derived from the local name "Ajuda" or "Ouidah." European mapmakers and explorers often adapted local names into forms that were more familiar or easier for them to pronounce and write.

European Influence: European explorers and mapmakers of the time often used names that sounded familiar or resonant with their own cultural and religious references.

Adaptation of Local Names: The label "Juda" on Bowen's map does not imply a direct connection to the biblical tribe of Judah. It reflects European cartographic practices and the adaptation of local names.

There Is No Biblical Connection: The name "Juda" on maps does not indicate a historical presence of the biblical tribe of Judah in West Africa. It refers to the Kingdom of Whydah, a distinct African kingdom with its history and identity.

Black Hebrew Israelites often use Deuteronomy 28:68 but have frequently been refuted on this by people in the know, unfortunatly ignorant people who are not so studied fall into this use of a verse indicating West Africans were somehow Judah the Tribe.

However, let us look at the passage and let us see if this fits the West African slave trade of the Whydah (Ajuda) people.  

Deuteronomy 28:68- ESV says -  68 And the Lord will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”

The point that the Black Hebrew Israelites the Whydah (Ajuda) people use this verse for is that Israel will go back to Egypt in ships as slaves ignoring however the quite explicitly clear point which refutes this notion which states there will be and I quote "NO BUYER" yet this is not the case for the Whydah (Ajuda) people historically.

[We see in “A Journal of a Voyage made in the Hannibal of London 1694” by Thomas Phillipsit says: According to promise we attended his majesty with samples of our goods, and made our agreement about the prices, tho’ not without much difficulty; . . . next day we paid our customs to the king and cappasheirs, . . . then the bell was ordered to go about to give notice to all people to bring their slaves to the trunk to sell us. Capt. Clay and I had agreed to go to the trunk to buy the slaves by turns, each his day, that we might have no distractions or disagreement in our trade, as often happens when there are here more ships than one, and . . . their disagreements create animosities, underminings, and out-bidding each other, whereby they enhance the prices to their general loss and detriment, the blacks well knowing how to make the best use of such opportunities, and as we found make it their business, and endeavor to create and foment misunderstandings and jealousies between commanders, it turning to their great account in the disposal of their slaves.

https://digfir-published.macmillanusa.com/thinkingthroughsourcesap/thinkingthroughsourcesap_ch14_4.html

Title of Washington Post: An African country reckons with its history of selling slaves

States: OUIDAH, Benin — Less than a mile from what was once West Africa's biggest slave port, the departure point for more than a million people in chains, stands a statue of Francisco Félix de Souza, a man regarded as the father of this city. There's a museum devoted to his family and a plaza in his name. Every few decades, his descendants proudly bestow his nickname — "Chacha" — on a de Souza who is appointed the clan's new patriarch.

But there's one part of de Souza's legacy that is seldom addressed. After arriving here in the late 1700s from Brazil, then a Portuguese colony, he became one of the biggest slave merchants in the history of the transatlantic slave trade.

In Benin, where the government plans to build two museums devoted to the slave trade in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, slavery is an embattled subject. It is raised in political debates, downplayed by the descendants of slave traders, and deplored by the descendants of slaves. 

At a time when Americans are again debating how slavery and the Civil War are memorialized, Benin and other West African nations are struggling to resolve their legacies of complicity in the trade. Benin's conflict over slavery is particularly intense.

For over 200 years, powerful kings in what is now the country of Benin captured and sold slaves to Portuguese, French, and British merchants. The slaves were usually men, women, and children from rival tribes — gagged and jammed into boats bound for Brazil, Haiti, and the United States.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/an-african-country-reckons-with-its-history-of-selling-slaves/2018/01/29/5234f5aa-ff9a-11e7-86b9-8908743c79dd_story.html

Evidence that West Africans from Whydah and Benin played a part just as European nations played a part in the buying and selling of Slaves which is why West Africans can not be Israel because the passage Deuteronomy 28:68 says Israel when going on ships to Egypt will not be purchased. Yet these West Africans from Whydah and Benin were purchased as shown so far and I will continue to speak about other evidence proving this.

Historical Records show that the people who were in slavery from the West of Africa, the Whydah (Ajuda) people were bought, evidence of this can be seen in historical documents such as:

1) Ship manifests which had detailed records that exist of slave ships departing from Whydah and other West African ports.

2) Traders' Accounts such as European traders and merchants documenting their activities in journals, letters, and other records, including their involvement in the purchase and sale of slaves from Whydah (Ajuda).

Archaeological Evidences also show this to be the case relating to the slave trade such as:

1) Shipwrecks as Archaeological expeditions have discovered numerous shipwrecks off the coast of West Africa including the area of Whydah, containing artifacts and evidence of the transatlantic slave trade.

2) Port Infrastructure shows archaeological remains of forts, warehouses, and other infrastructure associated with the slave trade which was uncovered in West African ports like Whydah (Ajuda) providing physical evidence of the trade's existence.

Historical accounts additions such as:

1) Travels' reports of European travelers and explorers who visited West Africa during that era of the transatlantic slave trade who wrote accounts describing the slave markets which indicate purchase and selling, trading practices, and conditions in the places of West Africa like Whydah (Ajuda).

2) There was also Abolitionist literature of people in Europe and America who published pamphlets, books, and articles condeming the slave trade and providing detailed accounts of its operations

Primary Source Documents such as:

1) Treaties and Agreements between European powers and the African leaders to regulate and facilitate the trade in Enslaved Africans, with many of these documents being preserved in archives.

2) Legal records such as court records from Europe and America including cases related to disputes over ownership, sale, and transport of enslaved Africans purchased from West African Ports like Whydah (Ajuda) which the very fact in these words purchase relates to buying, so this evidence is explicit that these West African Whydah (Ajuda) people can not be Israel of the passage in Deuteronomy 28:68.

Now some Black Hebrew Israelites claim even if this is so, the verses before of curses from Deuteronomy 28:48-68 can only be related to Africans, but this is not the case, and here is why.  

Verse 48: People will serve their enemies in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and lacking everything. Now while it may be true to an extent, this also happened during the Jewish holocaust in Germany, there are images of starved Jews who looked like bones, so this is not just relating Africans but can be said for many people in slavery, but if you search up for images on Google such as "Jewish Holocaust pictures you will see starved Jews. So saying these passages, these curses are only related to Africans is ignorant and a bad attempt to make it look like Whydah (Ajuda) are Jewish Judah the Tribe.

Verse 49: The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth. So relating Africa and Europe, the British Empire was the nation that predominantly ruled Africa, which is far and could be seen as the end of the world in a way, but Rome is the same region and has come against Israel, and took them into slavery, stole all things from Israel also. So this while it can be true about Africa, is not only related to Africans but the people who were dispersed through Europe and Russia before Africans were introduced to Europe. So this is not just used about Africans but many nations who have been in slavery, so you can't say this proves Africa is Judah the tribe.

Now for time's sake, I will run through three more verses:

Verses 50-51: Says a hard-faced nation is the one coming against them and this nation will eat the offspring of the cattle, the fruit of your ground, again this has happened to Israel by Romans, Babylon, and other nations, and likely has happened to Africans to, so this can easily be used for any nation when they have been in slavery the one who takes captive that land would take the produces.

Verses 52: Now again this passage about this enemy will besiege you in towns, your high walls and fortified walls are coming down, again this can easily have happened to any nation Israel, Africa, and other nations at war that were enslaved. Again we see further about the parents eating their children this was said to have hapened in 66-73 AD to Israel according to the siege of Jerusalem led by Titus, in fact just like verse 52 this besiege is the action done and siege is of the military operation, so this seig of Jersualem in 66-73 AD where Judah was trapped in the city with walls around, those came down after the prolonged siege led to severe famine within the city walls. Food supplies ran out, leading to desperation in horrific conditions. Josephus wrote about the Jewish War in his work "The Jewish War" he provided an extremely disturbing description of starvation to the point of acts of cannibalism. including particular a graphic and tragic story of a mother eating her child.  

I will end that passage reading here to state while it may be the case Africans had done that during the period of their slavery most during the time of slavery in the West were sold by other Africans, not during the war by Europeans, they were primarily taken by other Africans and then sold into slavery which indicates that the Whydah (Ajuda) people didn't go through the same explicit events but may have gone through similar events and that this passage when it finalizes says in verse 68 they will not be bought, but Africans like Whydah (Ajuda) people were purchased and don't seem to fit explicitly but do have similarities but in the explicit form they were bought and the scripture says they would not be bought, when they go on ships.

Additionally, The Black Hebrew Israelites while they point to Whydah (Ajuda) as this is our kingdom, this is our people, they seem to miss the fact that the people of Whydah (Ajuda) sold them to Portuguese people.