If you know black history in Europe, this will not surprise you.
Right around the same time the Moors of Spain began to get things going, the Moors of Germany and the Black Reich(Holy Roman Empire) dominated central and eastern Europe. Adolf Hitler was found to have black blood of the E Y chromosome haplogroup lineage and roughly one third of all white Americans are of recent African descent. This is black German blood.read more
Nri is an ancient Igbo city-state in Anambra State Nigeria. The Kingdom of Nri was a center of learning, religion, and commerce in pre-colonial West Africa. Historians have compared the significance of Nri, at its peak, to the religious cities of Rome or Mecca: it was the seat of a powerful and imperial state that influenced much of the territories inhabited by the Igbo of Awka and Onitsha to the east; the Efik, the Ibibio, and the Ijaw to the South; Nsukka and southernIgala to the north; and Asaba, and the Anioma to the west. The rulers of Nri did not use military conquest, but used religious authority and control of commercial routes as tactics in the spread of their city-state. Politically, Nri is known to be the most ancient origins of the Eze kingship in Igbo societies. But Nri and its rulers were also known for their occult religious Juju, an institution that instilled both awe and fear in those who made pilgrimages to the shrine.
Commercially, Nri was against slave holding. “Osu” was the name of outcasts of other communities who migrated and were accepted in Nri. Some Osu became eunuchs. During the colonial period, Nri and the regions under its political, religious, or commercial control became international markets for palm oil. In the heart of Nri influence was the Igbo Ukwu bronze castings.read more
One of the oldest texts composed in Ireland is the Leabhar Gabhla, the Book of Invasions. It tells a semi-mythical history of the waves of people who settled in Ireland in earliest times. It says the first settlers to arrive in Ireland were a small dark people called the Fir Bolg, followed by a magical super-race called the Tuatha de Danaan (the people of the goddess Dana) probably from Africa. Then came the Fomors, another possible African type.read more
David MacRitchie , « Ancient and Modern Britons » , 1884
1. Vol I, page 46 :
“Any latin dictionary, any old one at least, will tell you that maurus is a ‘moor’, a ‘blackamoor’ or a’tawny moor ‘. And Shakespeare uses the world ‘moor’ as a synonym for ‘negro'(Merchant of Venice, act III, scene V)”…”At that last world bears nowadays a somewhat restricted meaning , it may be better to take the old fashioned « blackamoor »,as the nearest English rendering of maurus signifying thereby any black, or brown skinned man”.read more
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