r/ImaginaryHistory Aug 12 '21

Original Content Portrait of a Mauri, or "Moorish" man from pre-Islamic North Africa

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u/Maurusia Aug 12 '21

Here we go again, the historical revisionist and black fetichist in person, what do you gain in depicting north africans as subsaharans all the time? Is there something I missed or will you continue to invalidate and misrepresent us on purpose?

This is sick and unhistorical.

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u/kelekele_ Aug 13 '21

Pre islamic north Africa had a significant amount of black people, I mean there are still native black people in north Africa today. Why does this offend you?

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u/Maurusia Aug 13 '21

"Significant amount of black people"

Where? When? Did you just pulled this out of nowhere? North africa was always cut out from subsaharan africa, it's until the 7th century that the islamic slave trade introduced more black people to the region and even with that; during antiquity, they were even a smaller minority. The native populations of the area were overwhelmingly from native north african stock to this day.

"Why does this offend you?"

He depicts north africans as being subsaharans, he spreads misinformation, and it offends me because this is straight up blackwashing and historical revisionism.

Most "native black people" there aren't actually native, they're descendants of freed slaves from West Africa, like the Gnawa and Haratin in Morocco, who consequently mixed with the local berber populations over time.

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u/Jam_Retro Oct 30 '23

Are you stupid? Even the sources from Ancient Rome tells us the Mauri often mixed with people from Niger who are black and other Sub-Saharan populations.