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Fatima al-Fihri a Moorish Woman Founded The World’s Oldest University

  “Fatima al-Fihri was young when her family moved to what is now modern-day Morocco. After her father’s death, the young, Muslim woman of color

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Early Man in Britain and His Place in the Tertiary Period By Boyd Dawkins

“In Scotland the small dark Highlander, and in Ireland the black Celts to the west of the Shannon, still preserve the Iberian characteristics in more

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Our earliest ancestors in Britain By Boyd Dawkins

  “In the year A.D. 449 certain Englishmen–for they were Englishmen before our England had received its name–came over here from the North of Germany

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Historical Dictionary of Morocco By Thomas K. Park, Aomar Boum

” ‘abid al-bukhari. The Moroccan term ‘abid al bukhar derives from a 17th-century requirement that on induction into the army the soldiers had to swear

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Exile in the Maghreb: Jews under Islam …997–1912 By Paul B. Fenton, David G. Littman

“When a Jew passes before a mosque, he is obliged to take off his slippers or sandals. He must do the same when he passes

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Morocco and the Moors: Being an Account of Travels, with a General By Arthur Leared

“Everywhere numbers of individuals are to be observed in whom the features and other physical characteristics of the negro race prevail more or less. The

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The Statue of Liberty Was Originally a Moorish Woman

“That might be surprising to people more familiar with the statue’s French roots than its Arab ones. After all, the statue’s structure was designed by

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The face of the First known American, Lucia

According to the BBC Documentary ‘First Americans were Australian‘the first Americans migrated from modern Australia, following a migration from Africa to Australia. Thea article and

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The Oldest Moor found in Morocco dated over 300,000 years Old

“Their ancient DNA—the oldest ever obtained from Africans—shows that these people had no European ancestry. Instead, they were related to both Middle Easterners and sub-Saharan

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The Aboriginal Races of North America by Drake, Samuel Gardner, 1798-1875; Williams, H. L

  Drake was educated in the common schools, and from 1818 to 1825 taught in a district school. He was fond of literary pursuits, and

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An Inquiry into the distinctive characteristics of the Aboriginal Race of America By Samuel George Morton, M. D.,

“A portion of the Moorish population of Africa is very mixed race of Arabs, Berbers, Negroes, &c  (Page. 6)” “The observations of Molina and Humboldt

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The Moors Were Targets For Portuguese, Spaniard and English Slave Markets

   “Pope Urban II, 1088–1099, granted Spanish crusaders the same papal indulgences that were granted for making pilgrimages to Jerusalem. Urban thereafter issued the first

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Invention of the White Race Vol. 1 Racial Oppression and Social Control By Theodore W. Allen

I appreciate the effort and spirit of Theodore W. Allen’s work, as his position about the “White Race” formed in America is correct. However, the

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Mexican Moor History

Qouting Dr. Aisha Khan author of Islam and the Americas (New World Diasporas): “The Spanish conquistador Hernon Cortez arrived in Mexico in 1519 and referred to

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The Works of Sallust

“From the plains of Catabathmos, (which are the Boundaries separating Egypt from Africa) following the Sea-coast, the first City is that of Cyene, a Greek

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The Wars of Justinian

  “…nations settled in Libya before the Moors, who on account of having been established there from ancient times were called autochthonous. Because of this,

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Pride of Carthage

“The army was a mixed company made up partly of the veterans stationed at New Carthage, with some Iberians from the southern tribes, completed by

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Culture and Customs of Ghana

  “The religous identity of Muslims is more easily ascertained by their outward appearance and actions than that of Christians. Their dress, suh as agbada

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Moors of North America

“Turf-built Cots” 277 turf-covered gamine, or cota* of the Lapps, and its architecture is visibly the … In short, these turf-built wigwams are the dwellings of the Scoto-Picts, or Egyptian Moors, whether we look at these people in their latest

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Fortunes of Africa

“Whatever kind of trade with Africa was involved, European governments sought to benefit by granting national monopolies to commercial companies venturing there. In 1618, England’s

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Moors In Colonial Louisiana

“When the African slave trade to Lousiana began, the Company of the Indies’ control over its Senegal concession was weak and was challenged by African

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Moors In The New World

“In 1494, a Papal decision, followed by the Treaty of Tordesillas, had already divided Morocco into a Spanish and a Portuguese sphere of influence (

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“Moor” also applied to natives of Hispaniola [Haiti-Dominican Republic]

“In 1872 two men began work on a lexicon of words of Asian origin used by the British in India. Since its publication the 1,000-page

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English Institutions And The American Moor

James Alton James (17 September 1864, Jefferson, Wisconsin – 12 February 1962, Evanston, Illinois) was a United States educator and historian. He spent two years at the Platteville Normal School, and then, after

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