The evidence for African & Muslim people in Britain during the medieval period & before—a storified twitter thread: https://storify.com/caitlinrgreen/african-migrants-medieval-britain …
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Yes the Mediteranean has always been a European lake swapping genes culture and technology. Little flowed from below the inaccessible Sahara
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I think you're positing too hard a border here :) Not only was there Saharan & trans-Saharan trade via the Garamantian kingdom (see, for >
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @andyblueskyz
> example, https://www.world-archaeology.com/features/garamantes-libya.htm … & http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0067270X.2012.727614 …), but there was also notable contact w/ Nubia & Aksum (in Ethiopia & Eritrea) >
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @andyblueskyz
> and Roman trading etc down the east coast of Africa to Tanzania. Indeed, plenty of evidence for familiarity with & presence of African >
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Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
> ppl in Roman Empire & into Late Antiquity, e.g. https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/758742518175440898 … etc. With specific regard to Roman Britain, the figures I cited >
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Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
> yesterday for York, London & Leicester (see https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/890900522588184577 …) relate specifically to ppl of African ('Sub-Saharan') ancestry :)
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