A note on the evidence for African migrants in Bronze Age–Medieval Britain — new post :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/05/a-note-on-evidence-for-african-migrants.html …pic.twitter.com/lnldjbZaKI
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A man named Mahumet (Muhammad) living & duelling in mid-twelfth-century Wiltshire, 1160–65: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/prosopon/issue11-1.pdf …pic.twitter.com/Lt7pX6Z0Bl
Mahumet's duel was w/ John de Merleberge=Marlborough, Wiltshire; fwiw, a Theobald, son of Mahumet, is also recorded from E13thC Hampshire...
Another Mahomet (Muhammad) recorded 1327, when Edward III issued him+6 others a pardon at Newton-on-Ouse, Yorks, for 'offenses in Ireland'
Re: these names, worth noting again al-Idrisi's knowledge of southern+eastern Britain & dinars in L11/12thC England:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/719248330472230913 …
Al-Idrisi in 12thC on Hastings: 'a town of large extent+many inhabitants, flourishing+handsome, having markets, workpeople & rich merchants'
Abu'l-Fida on Britain from his E14thC Geography, based on 13thC work of Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi (trans. Dunlop, 1957)pic.twitter.com/yngi0Nwf5h
A final bit from Sa'id al-Maghribi in the 13thC, describing the transport of tin from England to Alexandria...pic.twitter.com/5HnKFQa2WL
A discussion of Bartholomew the Ethiopian in 13thC England+the origins of his former master: http://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.NMS.3.409?journalCode=nms …pic.twitter.com/TPgQV1OXKS
"1271 AD… Thomas de Clare, who brought with him four Saracen prisoners, returned from the Holy Land to England." https://archive.org/stream/flowershistorye01parigoog#page/n464/mode/2up …pic.twitter.com/pbwwW7pVem
so; the rumours that Sherwood (legend etc) had Saracens/East Africans as companions? hmm.... ;-0)
Slavery poisoned the water in that theUS actively suppresses any history that contradicts their narrative regarding Africa/ns
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