OffensivelyOpenMinded
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Guess so. But this isn't a matter of simple disagreement. You are taking a revisionist view that can easily be proven false.So I guess we have to agree to disagree.No. That's not correct. The blacks are the slaves....as they had always been wherever they were outside of subsaharan Africa. Heck...they still enslave each other in parts of subsaharan Africa.But the pictures could be viewed another way. Perhaps the Moors depicted are the Blacks and the lighter folks are their slaves.Skin tone range isn't the important part anyway. The fact is that the Moors were considered to be the same as Turks and Arabs to the Europeans of the time. You can even find painting from the time, and they do depict varying skin tones of Moors, and even actual subsaharan negroes...but the features of the negroes are depicted different than the Moors.That is just one man's opinion. Since many moors have black skin it is silly to not recognize that the range of skin tones among them is as varied as those of Blacks in America.JQ Public. .the link I provided explains what I am saying to you about Othello being 'black'. It gives you the historical context.