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[QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [QB] The importance of question six is integral to whether or not Haratin were considered "Berber" at the time of the event. By calling them "free human beings" the actual word [i]amazigh[/i] may be implied or the phrase could just mean literally what it says in English. A text in its original language would be decisive. The activist could have been performing sleight of hand interpretation just to score points. Anyway, here's what I think about Harratine. The core component of Haritin Imazighen are in all probability the most direct descendents of the historic central and north Saharans written of by Greco-Latin authors, i.e.,[list] [*]Leukaethiopes [*]Melanogaetuli [*]Nigritae [*]Western Ethiopians (Hesperii) [*]Pharusii [*]Icthyophagi Aethiopes [*]etc., [/list] These were peoples living approximately 250 miles (or more) south of the littoral. If truly the indigenees, they may have been neolithic "Berber" speakers (after leaving the proto-language's Gharb Darfur birthplace to traverse the Sahara before reaching the Maghreb). Haratine are a social group of formerly subjugated peoples. Some of them were always in the Sahara and just north of it. Others were kidnapped from their residences in the Western Sahel or sold out of the Western Sudan south of the sahel. Since they are not all of one homogeneous ethnicity, the freed slaves marrying among each other created a new ethnicity. The bulk of this new ethnic group, "the One Fifth-ers", were the indigenous inhabitants of the Saharan Oases. This is not to exclude the former "owners" as part of the mix. There was sex between the male "owners" and the subordinated females as well as the subordinated males with the "owners'" wives. Harratine are not related to the other "Berber" groups only by language. They are just as much a part of the Amazigh people by biological lineage, cultural heritage, and time immemorial habitation of the same geographic region. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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