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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] [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]This is actually not hard to fathom. The Spanish also describe the Canary Islanders as having "bushy hair". Combine this trait with the dark coppery brown of Carib Indians and you can imagine how they may have looked. [b]LOL[/b] Their complexion was probably the "brun-white" that Coon coined which he used for peoples from the Tuareg to Abyssinians and even 'pure' Arabs. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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