When the colour black was negated by the everly increasing restricted meaning of the socially constructed image of black.
Pre-European age of expansion data to follow.
[Please forgive me this silly subject matter but it's time to stop this madness.]
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Pre-European age of expansion data to follow ... ?
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I was going to drudge up some old posts to show chronologically from Egypt, India, Greece, Rome, Israel, Dar ul Islam, China and Europe (pre age of expansion) that black was used as the colour descriptor for nearly all the eastern hemisphere peoples south of say 30° north latitude in Africa /Arabian plate or the Tropic of Cancer for India and Asia and how upon the birth of hierarchical anthropology after the birth of the negro myth black increasingly narrowed to negroes (slaves of African origin their descendents and their sources, but then I thought to myself why bother.
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