Watch me catch you slacking AGAIN.
Those pictures ain't from Giovanni da Verrazzano - someone else stuck them in there. They from Arnoldus Montanus, A Dutch preacher/teacher 150 years later who wrote books for schoolchildren. He's the same guy who posted that cover shot with a "llama" that looks like it could be the fukking dragon from The Neverending Story, and you're taking half-assed sketches to decorate maps in the book as the overriding authority on Indian facial features and hair. As far as I can tell, those Dutch had never even been to Carolina.
But they HAD just made an expedition to Brazil...which was filled with Africans because the Portuguese had been importing slaves there since 1501. So these pictures from the late 1600s are probably just showing Black people in Brazil, since there were a LOT of Black people in Brazil by then.
And Giovanni, the guy who wrote the text you're trying to quote, wasn't talking about fukking Ethiopians. You're using a mistranslation.
Here is the Ramusio translation of that letter, the earliest version known by far, published in 1556:
"These people go altogether naked except only that they cover their privy parts with certain skins of beasts like unto martens, which they fasten onto a narrow girdle made of grass, very artfully wrought, hanged about with tails of diverse other beasts, which round about their bodies hang dangling down to their knees. Some of them wear garlands of birds' feathers.
The people are of a color russet, and not much unlike the Saracens; their hair black, thick, and not very long, which they tie together in a knot behind, and wear it like a tail. They are well-featured in their limbs, of average stature, and commonly somewhat bigger than we; broad breasted, strong arms, their legs and other parts of their bodies well fashioned, and they are disfigured in nothing, saving that they have somewhat broad visages, and yet not all of them; for we saw many of them well favoured, having black and great eyes, with a cheerful and steady look, not strong of body, yet sharp-witted, nimble and great runners, as far as we could learn by experience."
You know who the Saracens are, right? They are ARABS. This pale-ass Italian guy in the 1500s was saying that the Carolina Indians are russet (reddish-brown) with the complexion similar to the ARABS, not Ethiopians.
Your alternative version of the letter comes from an Italian named Carli. It's the English from the Italian from the French - a translation of a translation. He didn't understand the French word for Muslim that was used and mistranslated it.
This whole thing is a goddamn Instagram conspiracy theory. It's nothing but a bunch of pictures put up with no context saying, "Look, see, it proves it!"
Where in this entire thread have you given anyone the slightest evidence that you know anything about the history, genetics, etc. you would need to make these claims?
Why don't you start back at the beginning. Instead of jumping all over the goddamn world with random out-of-context photos from bullshyt sources, why don't you find ONE people group that you think was Black before Black people got here. Pick ONE group and show me all the evidence you have for that group. And we'll see how strong that case is. Not a bunch of bullshyt showing French slaves in the Carribean one minute and then crap paintings of Chileans by someone who had never even been to America the next minute and then a mistranslation of a translation about Carolina Indians the next.
I ain't never seen so much hate for African heritage until I met Hebrew American Hoteps on The Coli. Ya'all will do ANYTHING you can not to claim Mother Africa.
