Hidden History: D'Artagnon & the 3 Musketeers or, King David & the 3 Mighties

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D’Artagnon & the 3 Musketeers or, King David & the 3 Mighties;
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I was so shocked to find out on one quiet afternoon in a public library that Alexander Dumas was black. At first, I couldn’t believe what I was reading as I stood there flipping through a paperback book of one of his books and looking for his picture. I actually stumbled across this new found information as I initially went to the library to look at videos but turned and decided to browse the shelves filled with paperback books located across from the video shelves. When I began to read the introduction of one of his books to determine if I wanted to read it, that was when I discovered that he was black. The author of this particular translation only briefly stated that Alexander Dumas had ‘black blood’. I was stunned. I thought to myself, how in the world could I have gone all the way through college and never heard that one of the greatest authors in the world during his lifetime in the A.D. 1800s and in Europe was actually a black man!? I had even heard about Beethoven but, never did I hear about Alexander Dumas. His book characters were more famous than him! Some of the most popular characters portrayed in some American holidays in which masquerades are worn are ‘the Three Musketeers’ or, ‘the Three Amigos’. If I had not done my own post-college research, I would have never known that Alexander Dumas was a black man that used Bible stories to rewrite history and that was how he became famous! In fact, he actually copied another Black man of who did the very same thing about 300 years before he was even born! Alexander Dumas was written to have studied the writing styles of William Shakespeare and repeated his tactics in order to become famous. Yes! I was also shocked to find out that William Shakespeare was also a Black man! Like Shakespeare, Alexander rewrote the Bible stories and strategically changed the race of some of the people written about in the Bible in order to appeal to the white and European aristocratic women of Europe! It worked both times!

Alexander Dumas was the son of a slave. His father came from a slave woman of the Caribbean and was captured in North Africa and later, he became an elite part of the French military before and during the reign of the Louis Dynasty of the kings of France. His mother was a white woman. He did not get to know his father but, because of his higher status than other black people, due to his mother, Alexander was able to become educated. She sent her son to a private school where he learned to read and write and this was his foundation for the passion he gained for white women and for writing. Obviously though, he gained a great appreciation for the French military due to his father’s life and this too became the foundation of his books. Much of the settings of his adventurous tales of valor, honor and romance were in troubling times in both French and European history and because it was widely read and acclaimed, his writings actually came to affect America during and after slavery times and the English language that we speak today. In fact, in the post-slavery days when sharecropping became a way of life, a classic American book called Sounder, was written about a true story and about these times and later portrayed in film with the actress Cicely Tyson. In one film about these times, it showed how a rich white woman gave a book written by Alexander Dumas to a young black boy to read as her way of helping him. I became curious about some of the popular books written by Dumas but, I had no idea that he was a bi-racial Black man! I had seen some films based on some of his books such as ‘the Count of Monte Cristo’ and ‘the Man in the Iron Mask’ but none of the leading characters were black and, I had never read any of his books. But after I learned of this new found knowledge and saw an actual photograph of him seated in front of his daughter, I became interested in reading a book written by him. And that was when I found out that one of his most famous books was actually a rewritten story about an extraordinary feat that concerned a great struggle between the Biblical King David and three Israelite men of valor against the Philistines. The four Israelite men had been caught up in a cave in a siege!

Alexander changed the characters and the settings of the Bible completely to fit the kind of people and cultures the white Europeans adored and not only that but, some of the characters actually came from regions and cultures of people that were the oppressors of Israel. In the book, The Three Musketeers, the character and leader, D’Artagnon, was written to parallel king David. D’Artagnon (Darth-Agnon; dart or spear, darod) was written to have come from a backward, mountainous country setting of France in which the ethnic men were not refined but, powerful and intimidating from a lifestyle of doing years of laborious work. The name of the area was written to be ‘Gaston’ (Gascony) and very early in the book, D’Artagnon proved himself to be so valiant that he was allowed to become apart of a military training organization of men. The name of ‘Gascony’ goes way back in time. One important historical area would be in a mountainous region of North Turkey along the Black Sea where sometimes the name of the region was written as ‘Kaska’, a land dominated by aggressive white people of whom practiced enslavement of blacks. But the most important region where these kind of people stemmed from was in the land of Canaan. The oldest name and origins of this culture of Gascony (or Kaska tribes) stem from the Biblical people called ‘the Girgasites’. From these Canaanites comes an immense experience and distinct cultures that spread all over the ancient world and the modern world yet, because of their supremacist beliefs and customs, they all go back to their origins with the white Canaanites. Some of the many names that identify their links to past and present are; Kirjath (Kir-Gath as in Kirjath-jearim or Kirjath-Arba), Circassians, Igirisu, Cassites (of ancient Babylon), the Kassites of the Zagros mountains, . . . Casluhim, Caswell, Zagharid, Gaza, gasoline and Gestapo. And just like Dumas portrayed D’Artagnon to be a rugged and burly man from Gascon of whom loved to chase a soft, delicate white woman while white men loved to challenge him for the hand of the Belle, this became a common theme in European adventure and romance. In the children’s movie also set in France called, The Beauty and the Beast, the darker macho man that ‘wanted to be the hero’ was named ‘Geston’ (Gaston) and the beauty that he tried to prove his manhood to was named ‘Belle’. In the end, Geston lost out to the beast that was changed to become a lighter haired, blue-eyed, white man.

The story that Alexander Dumas paralleled was also amazingly connecting in regards to the historical issues that has always been present with regards to the Israelites and the Philistines. Although the aboriginal Philistines (Mizraim-Ham) and the Israelites (Abra-Ham) were always respectful of each others cultures, it was the white presence in the Philistine lands that ultimately led to a wedge put between the two Hamitic-type people. King David and three of his men had actually gotten trapped when they ran from the face of many Philistine men set upon defeating them. After being held up in the cave for a long time, the three men in the cave with David, suddenly ran out of the cave and fought their way through an ordeal to get some water for David. When they also fought their way back into the cave and handed the water to David to drink, he became indignant for causing his men to put their lives on the line for him just because he complained about being thirsty. So, David poured the water out and then ran out of the cave and the four of them fought against a great number of Philistine men and killed them all! After this enormous feat, their fame spread abroad and they became coined as ‘King David & the Three Mighties’ according to the Bible. As D’Artagnon and each of the three names of the Musketeers reveal, Athos, Porthos & Aramis, Dumas rewrote the story, of David & the Three Mighties, to appeal to the rugged Hamitic Musket men (Musketeers), swords men and white Europeans of his day. In 2002, the French exhumed his body and put him in their pantheon and finally admitted to racism with regards to his burial.

II SAMUEL 23:8, 9 & 11 [Adino, Eleazar, Shammah; the three Mighties]

Photo of Dumas when cameras were invented
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Picture History : Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) and Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868)

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Sounder; the film
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