Before the time of Elizabeth the Ist of England and contemporary with her time, England was home to thousands of Moors, living peacefully, carrying on different types of profession and trade, and contributing to every fabric of society as they had always done in England since centuries earlier.
Then came the time of Elizabeth the Ist, and nuerosis of racism started to manifest virulently against the black English men famously known as the English Moors.
The letter re-produced above was written by Elizabeth, in the 1590s. Therein she promulgated the expulsion of the Moors of England from the land of their birth.
In 1596 she wrote to the lord mayors of major cities noting that there were ‘of late divers blackmoores brought into this realm, of which kind of people there are already here to manie…’. She ordered that ‘those kinde of people should be sente forth of the land’.
Elizabeth made an arrangement for a merchant, Casper van Senden, to deport Moors from England. In 1596 she licensed him to deport at least 89 Black people to Spain and Portugal. Hundreds probably thousands more were subsequently deported, sold, or exchanged for Albion English prisoner in the wake of Elizabeth the 1st’s proclaimation against black English people.
In 1601, Elizabeth issued a further proclamation expressing her ‘discontentment by the numbers of blackamores which are crept into this realm…’ and again licensing van Senden to deport Black people. This second proclamation only deepened the prejudice and consequent violence practiced against the Moorish nation of England. Many were seized, and sold as slaves to galley ships on their way to the Americas.
Her proclamation of 1601 claimed that Black people were ‘fostered and relieved here to the great annoyance of [the queen’s] own liege people, that want the relief, which those people consume’. The proclamation also stated that ‘most of them are infidels, having no understanding of Christ or his Gospel’.
This second proclaimation announced open-seasons on the Moors. The orgy of violence, rape, ethnic cleansing and enslavement and sale of Moorish people of England can best be imagined.
It seems that the queen was playing on the physical difference of the Moors from Protestant Albions to blame them for all manners of social ills.
It must be recognized that prior to this change in attitude the Moors were the lights of civilization and culture throughout Europe.
The Moors built the castles, the churches, and laid down the foundations of great cities and Universities, upon which modern Europe is built. The Moors taught Europe science and literature, as well as the seven arts of culture.
All that seemed to have become irrelevant at the time of Elizabeth the 1st, as racism and genocide had then waxed strong. The causes of this dramatic shift of attitude are somewhat multifaceted and nebulous. Yet, what is clear is that, at this point, the Moors were no more as powerful as in the past. Rather, they were being used as convenient scapegoats at a time of crisis and xenophobia.
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Oguejiofo Annu
November 15, 2011
God praise Our Queen! Because of her England remained as stable as it was. But sadly attributable to her death, we have no longer consentable countries. As for the moors; she means islamists; people whom could not accept christianity. She did not mean good decent people; but the moors then in her country were put their by the pope to distress england and crtiically impoverty it; you people need to see the political realities and stop focusing on racial issues.
The moors were a partial light of potential civilization. England and the english, the russians, the slavs, the latins, all have their facets. We can contribute to eachothers welfare and society; no doubt BUT mass rape and economic conspiracy to commit such rape and procreate destructively is not acceptable to anyone; not english and not moor and not black. we have everything to lose. imagine a world like american everywhere? evben the popes lower laity calll it a 3rd world.
be careful what you pray for’; the devil might be the giver.
“It must be recognized that prior to this change in attitude the Moors were the lights of civilization and culture throughout Europe.
The Moors built the castles, the churches, and laid down the foundations of great cities and Universities, upon which modern Europe is built. The Moors taught Europe science and literature, as well as the seven arts of culture.”
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What sources is this based on? Own personal revisionist history?
You do know that prior to 211 ad Nordic Europeans were illiterate, no writing system no mathematics needed to build temples churches or castles. Only the africans from the kushite eithiopian empire, which stretched across continents from Africa to asia and eithiopia minor. (India ). All moors were not islamist, they were also Christian. The first 3 popes were moors (black). The origin of the famed iron cross eas the symbol of the moor St. Maurice. Europeans will never admit the truth. Only artifacts and deep study of true human history will reveal the truth. When called afro centrist remember it was the radical white historians who started the black historians to write.
Perhaps if U actually did some research, this notion wud not seem so far fetched, 4 instance, who built the 1st Educational Instituitions (Universities), whose responsible for Alexandra the Great’s Education, where does Free Masonry come from?, thats right, the very same Moors!!!
Do some research instead of talking, and that goes/ applies to the rest of U’s!!!
Unless you have real evidence I will not bet on this article for accuracy. Also, she should have deported herself as well for she is not albino a pure race.
That was real evidence
Learn to go to your universities’ libraries in America, they have evidence of such things which many who are unlearned or hate black refuse to research. Read my other comment to find some books noted.
Don’t forget to mention how the Moors influenced British cuisine.
That is nearly right, it was the Moors who where calling the indigenous population Infidels, did not recognise the Christian church and tried to force their religion.
i would like to see more evidence to back this up, though in my research te clues do point tothis being true, since 1400 some plan was set in motion when somethingwasdiscovered about black prophecies.
There are many books written by European from great Universities like Harvard which you and others can read to bring light to your darkness of not believing the that Moors are the one educated the European sub-race. Please go Amazon to order book name The Image of the Black in Western Art Volume 1 and 2. Russian Icons which may cost too much but can be found many universities to borrow. From Babylon to Timbuktu, Blacks in Antiquity, Imperial Rome, Early Spanish Manuscript Illumination, Nature Knows No Color-Line. Most of these were written by your Europeans, however, they were not meant for people of color and Europeans WHO HATE BLACK TO KNOW.
Also keep in mind that those black men who were actually ruling were in fact Jews or Israelite who follow two new religions known as Moors(Muslim and Christianity invented by themselves)
See you have to understand as culture we had hundred of thousands of years to create the mathematics system the language system kemet aren’t called the mother and father of civilization for nothing everything come from kemet and this is basic knowledge put your pride to the side and use your head we’re do you find the oldest build things at kemet and when put the oldest form of religion and spiritual side bi side with present time religion mostly? used to day and it always line up the same but with different name of the people and different name of the place but always the same story so what dose this tell you which of this is the oldest came first and everything that came after is a water down form of the oldest one and the oldest form of religion led back to kemet? even modern day medicine and the surgery system all come from kemet