It was Bob Marley who sang that “2000 years of history could not be wiped away so easily.”
Lucius Septimius Bassianus (April 4, 188 – April 8, 217), commonly known as Caracalla, was a Black Roman Emperor who ruled from 211 to 217.
Caracalla was the eldest son of Septimius Severus, the first black African-born Emperor of Rome. But before Septimius Severus, there had been other Roman-born black Emperors of Rome. This story of the other black emperors of Rome will be explored in another write-up, but for now we focus on Caracalla.
Unlike his father Septimius Severus, Caracalla was born and raised in Italy. After the death of his father, he ruled jointly with his younger brother Geta until the latter’s death in 211.
Caracalla’s reign was notable for the Constitutio Antoniniana, granting Roman citizenship to freemen throughout the Roman Empire. That act laid a foundation for a peaceful multi-ethnic, multi-cultural Empire that Rome was to become.
Caracalla was mean towards the military incursions of the Goths, the Parthians and the Tartars, and he took brutal and extreme steps to suppress those invaders from Turkemenistan that were sorely troubling the cohesion of the Roman state.
A modern-day British historian Edward Gibbon, a descendant of the Goths, referred to him as, “the common enemy of mankind” because of the massacres he authorized in various parts of the empire.
In AD 213, Caracalla went north to the German frontier and subdued the Alamanni tribesmen who were causing trouble in the Agri Decumates. Due to that feat the Senate conferred upon him the title of “Germanicus Maximus”.
In AD 216, Caracalla took on the Parthians, a related tribe of the Goths, (the Parthians are the ancestors of the modern day Farsi-Iranians) who were causing problems on the southernmost flank of the empire. He tricked the Parthians into believing that he accepted a marriage and peace proposal, but then launched a series of blistering attacks on the Parthians when their guards were down. The thereafter ongoing conflict and skirmishes became known as the Parthian war of Caracalla.
The baths of Caracalla were the largest public baths ever built in ancient Rome. To put it in historical perspective, the central room of the baths was larger than St. Peter’s Basilica. It could easily accommodate over 2,000 Roman citizens. The bath house opened in 216, complete with libraries, private rooms and outdoor tracks. Caracalla ordered the building of those baths that are named in his honour.
Caracalla was assasinated by his body-guard while travelling from Edessa to continue the war against Parthian. He died on April 8, AD 217.
It is important that Africans should remember and celebrate Caracalla and his family line, i.e. the Severan Dynasty, because as black Africans, they were us and we are them.
By the dint of their heritage, they were part of our legacy, and their attainments represented part of our unfolding tale of greatness, of towering historical achievements, of courage, regency and inimitable genius.
The descendants of the Goths who conquered Rome, and now control historical narratives, would want you to believe that they were the real Romans. Through centuries of selective narration and faking of historical artefacts, they have largely succeeded in hiding the central role of the Africans in the defunct Roman empire.
They hide the facts that the Goths and the Parthians (the ancestors of the present day Germans, Russians, British, Spanish, Italians, and Iranians…the Aryans!!!) were the mortal enemies of the dark Ibero-Maurisian Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Libyans, and Numidians, Mauritanians, and Saharans, the original owners of western Europe. They promote a fake and false notion that Rome was a so-called white created civilization affiliated with their Gothic ancestry. But this is a lie!
Again we chant, blessings on the memorial of the Severan Dynasty, they were the “naigre” Emperors of Rome, from Africa. We will be meeting more Black Roman Emperors in the next series.
Oguejiofo Annu
September 25, 2010
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The blacks ruled okay the whites just destroyed our history and made it theirs as they do wit my every body else. Lol so anyways even the first Scottish kind was white….. Bullshit you cum, lice bucket full of lies. Well see when we the blacks come and take over your sorry full useless peace of shit kingdom of incest lol hahahaha
what a bunch of bullshit! Black Roman emperors..you people are delusional. No academic in the whole world even attempts to say such stupid things. be happy with the non influential African Civilizations, Caracalla was son to Septimius Severus who was of Carthaginian/Celtic origin. Romans conquered and bred in North Africa, entire families from Italy moved there because of land etc. Quit the bullshit.
Frank you need to, “Quit the bullshit.” Being of Carthaginian/Celtic origin still makes him black. Carthage is in Africa and the original Celts were a black tribe. When your ancestors left Central Asia, they came with death and destruction destroying the black tribes in Europe and taking their place. You were raised on fantasies of greatness. You cannot be in two places at the same time. And just because Africans didn’t necessarily go around the world, raping, enslaving doesn’t mean their civilization was less influential.
It is amazing that a people who only recently learned not to shit where they eat, still doesn’t realize the importance of proper hygiene, lack morals, ethics and values and who are still having sexual relations with animals think they are the ones responsible from ancient black civilizations when in fact their history only goes back to the last 500 years. While you Albinos were in Central Asia (your homeland) wallowing in your own excrements, there were black civilizations in the rest of the world.
Carthaginians such as Hannibal Barca and the indigenous “AFER” Black population were all Black people, so being of Carthaginian origin is the same as being of Black origin. Only a white racist would ttry to claim Carthaginians as non Black.
Good job….europeans also fudged my jewish brothers history…as if Moses was from sweden…lol.He married a dark skinned woman …only Israeli mitzrahi jews and Chabad say this thruth…like we have mad Lemba and Ethiopian jews here …some european azkenazim jews speak truth now…but they suffered bad in white christian europe…the Moors protected us and brought advanced mathematics into Spain….they were stuck in dark ages for 800yrs…! I go crazy when i see paintings of jeezus egypt and rome as all white peeps…world was brainwashed by vatican…evik crusaders killed and burned people and books of truth…now its the wasps turn in American…shalom Akk
A very interesting and informative piece that promoted some insightful and thoughtful points.
However, I’m a little bit concerned about the propagandistic slant towards the end. Not because I believe any such divisive proselytising along factional lines is unpleasant and counter-productive, but because I fear for its accuracy.
For starters, the false dialogue of the ‘Ayrian’, post-imperial Goths does not wash. There was no central control of historiography in the time period you are talking about and, had there been so, it would not have been a unified one. The many different ‘Aryian’ peoples in Western Europe at this time were either antagonistic or neutral to one another; there was certainly no centralised dialogue (this is one reason why this period is referred to as the Dark Ages – due to a lack of literary output and centralised organisation).
Furthermore, surely if there was an attempt to rewrite history in the way you suggest then the African emperors would have been re-written as European (not that such a term had any meaning at this point) or they would have been demonized. Indeed, many emperors were rewritten in this respect, but it was never considered to re-cast their skin colour, instead they were usually given unpleasant sexual proclivities such as incest (see Caligula, Nero and Commodus). Indeed, if an ‘Ayrian’ wished to demonize black people then recasting these three men would have been his first port of call.
The reason I keep using ‘Ayrian’ in inverted commas is because a) we don’t know for sure the racial make-up of these peoples you are referring to and b) they would not have had any consciousness of this being a factor. Indeed, this is one of the very few periods of history where black/white racism was not an important issue. There are countless examples of black tradesmen, politicians and imperial family members being black and there is almost no evidence that they were thought less of because of this trait. What was important was being Roman i.e. a Roman citizen, not having the a appropriate skin colour.
Two more points:
1. If one wished to look for Roman racism then one should look no further than their attitude towards Gauls and other Celts. These peoples were considered ‘less than’ and even when praised were only done so in a patronising way (i.e. the ‘noble savage’).
2. If what you say could hold any water then you must address the issue of why the history of the Eastern Roman Empire does not treat the Severans any differently. They were not overrun by ‘Ayrians’ and indeed lived hand-in-hand with the darker-hued people of the near and middle-east.
I hope you will take some of these comments on board and rewrite your otherwise interesting article.
You niggers never quit. You ought to team up with Farrakhan and write a book. By the way, the half breed Caracalla who brought multiculturism to the roman empire also brought the decline and destruction to the empire. Just as the American empire is falling as I type .