Lets Talk African History: The Moors. Who Were They?

[Dominic Decoco]

^^^ why tf didn't I think about a pdf version before I got it?!

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[IllmaticDelta]

Another interesting source I found comparing the Moors with West Africans:

"The Moors here are perfectly black; the only personal distinction between them and the Negroes being, that the Moors had long black hair, and had no scars on their faces. The Negroes are in general marked in the same manner as those of Tombuctoo." - The narrative of Robert Adams: an American sailor, who was wrecked on the western coast of Africa, in the year 1810, was detained three years in slavery by the Arabs of the Great Desert, and resided several months in the City of Tombuctoo. With a map, notes and an appendix (1817).

 

[Jammer22]

@Diasporan Royalty
I been to this blog so many times. Didn't know it belonged to this sister.

http://afroasiatics.blogspot.com/2014/03/

 

[Anhur]

This lady IS the most KNOWLEDGEABLE person on the Moors. Listen to her and not these clown ass Youtube Hoteps who think the Berbers were white while trying to claim the Moors as Black.


^She actually knows what she is talking about.

She's claiming that all Somalis were originally Hebrews (Yibir) at 41:27
I always thought that the only black Jews were the Ethiopian Jews. I didn't or even consider the fact that Yibirs and all the other Somali clans were Jews.
The Quran did say that the Jews were very hard headed. And that is the best description of Somalis.
It feels great to be apart of God's chosen people.

 

[Grano-Grano]

The Yibir might be Jews. That's what they claim at least

 

[MischievousMonkey]

one "mystery" I've yet to have uncovered is what can explain thus fascination European people globally had for the Moors, to the point noble families from all over started to represent them in something as important as their coats of arm? When the Moors represented a potential invaders for them?

I saw a theory that explained that there may have been commercial exchanges happening between european Moor structures and regions they weren't beefing with, in France notably. Maybe it comes from here.

I also peeped how some historians try to paint these heraldic representations as slaves, saying that the white fabric they wear around the head represented a liberated slave, clumsily implying families view this symbol as being synonymous with freedom

 

[MischievousMonkey]

I'll get pictures of XIXth century senegalese Moors to put in the thread

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

 

[Fatboi1]

one "mystery" I've yet to have uncovered is what can explain thus fascination European people globally had for the Moors, to the point noble families from all over started to represent them in something as important as their coats of arm? When the Moors represented a potential invaders for them?

I saw a theory that explained that there may have been commercial exchanges happening between european Moor structures and regions they weren't beefing with, in France notably. Maybe it comes from here.

I also peeped how some historians try to paint these heraldic representations as slaves, saying that the white fabric they wear around the head represented a liberated slave, clumsily implying families view this symbol as being synonymous with freedom

 

[Jemmy]

It was believed the Kanem Bornu and Hausalands had possession of some Moorish artifacts that were taken from them during the Fulani Jihad. I wonder how the Moors knew to go there when it was time to escape. The Hausa must’ve been related to some of these groups around the time. The Fulani Jihad changed a lot of things in that region.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

@Gebor

 

[Sinnerman]

@Diasporan Royalty
I been to this blog so many times. Didn't know it belonged to this sister.

Afro-Asiatica: An Odyssey in Black: March 2014

Dope to see this blog dropped on here. I've had it trademarked for years

I've been fascinated with the Moors recently for some reason after having not thought about em much for a couple years

 

[Neuromancer]

Always a good thread.