I'm looking for a quote regarding an encounter a man had with a moor. In the quote he described his relief that the moor he had met wasn't Black as he had heard Moors were. For the life of me I cannot find that quote despite searching through the forum. Would anyone by chance be familiar with the quote I'm referring to?
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quote:"Ah! here are real Moors! "says the squire to his master in Alexandre Dumas' Bastard of Mauléon: "See how black they are, Jesus! Black, miscreants, hideous and demonic, so lived the Moors in the European imagination for centuries. Also the European traveler who disembarked in Barbary, imbued with these representations, was surprised at the sight of this race so reviled. They are not naturally black," writes Abbot Poiret, "despite the proverb and as many writers think, but they are born white and remain white all their lives when their work does not expose them to the heat of the sun. "It is true, he adds, that there is no shortage of blacks among them, but they come from other regions and are slaves of the Moors.
M. Ennaji, Soldats, domestiques et concubines : l'esclavage au Maroc au XIXe siècle, Editions EDDIF, 1994, pp. 15
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Would anyone happen to have this entire article or access to it?
Edit2: Nevermind I found the book(in French), and a related one, Barbary and Enlightenment(in English). The statements proof of why context is important.
According to Barbary and the Enlightenment, it seems Poiret used the word Moor interchangeably and not always consistently with Arab,and separates Moors from Berbers. I'll need to track down the whole book to see the rest of Thomson's argument.
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