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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nodnarb: [QB] This is Christopher Columbus describing the Native Americans he came into contact with when entering the Caribbean: [QUOTE]At daybreak great multitudes of men came to the shore, all young and of fine shapes, very handsome; their hair not curled but straight and coarse like horse-hair, and all with foreheads and heads much broader than any people I had hitherto seen; their eyes were large and very beautiful; [qb]they were not black, but the color of the inhabitants of the Canaries[/qb], which is a very natural circumstance, they being in the same latitude with the island of Ferro in the Canaries.[/QUOTE]--[URL=http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/columbus.html]Source[/URL] If Canary Islanders could be generalized to have the same skin tone as Native Americans of the Caribbean, and if that skin tone is explicitly contrasted with that of "black" Africans, I don't think Canary Islanders were regarded as a generally black people back then. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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