Thread 17937704

The native inhabitants of north africa have always been black right? Why else would euros constant portray moors as being black?

>>17937704 (OP)
They're called Haratins/Ikelans and they still exist but they have been pushed out further south into the Sous region and into Saharan oases.

>>17937704 (OP)
>The native inhabitants of north africa have always been black right?
No.

>>17937704 (OP)
Because north african muslim armies and courts had the occasional black slave/servant/freedman with them, who ended up catching the attention of europeans due to their exotic appearance, then proceeded to basically get turned into an insulting stereotype and a way to otherize north africans in an obvious, visible way that can easily be depicted in art.
I.E, it was quite literally the medieval equivalent of americans on 4chan jokingly depicting Europeans as Muslims due to modern refugee migration, or people on /int/ depicting argentinians as pitch black africans as a way to parody their tendency to claim european ascendancy. They know it isn't actually true in reality, it's just banter.

>>17938031

Black north africans trafficked and enslaved whites as conubunage resulting in the mutt that now defines the region


but mutts dont define legacies

>>17938104
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>>17938115

cute

>>17937704 (OP)
Depends on how much interaction a culture had between the middle east and the Mediterranean but yes for the most part. Ancient egypt for example had many dark pharaohs as well as ones closer in skin tone and ethnic background to people in the middle east. North africans could look anywhere from sub saharan africans to palestinian/levantine people and even greek, especially after alexander the great's conquest and the following roman conquests of the mena region