@HPluckrose Hi Helen, I read you article with great interest. I am a playwright and work at the pedestrian level.
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I'm taking the reader to a performance of Othello in 1604 and I am totally with you on the comment you made about the invention of racism.
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Colour prejudice existed but was far less relevant than religion. Most references to 'black' people were abt Spaniards with black hair.
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Thanks. I'm looking at it from a story telling perspective. Didn't Hakluyt also refer to the Curse of Ham.
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