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mercurydude
10/02/23 2:29:38 PM
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I have this book on my book shelf. Seems the only thing the author got wrong was the gender.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/9/5/AAC89BAAE5Ij.jpg

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FortuneCookie
10/04/23 12:27:22 PM
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Historians: "Black people existed?"
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Smackems
10/04/23 12:34:14 PM
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mercurydude posted...
I have this book on my book shelf. Seems the only thing the author got wrong was the gender.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/9/5/AAC89BAAE5Ij.jpg
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indica
10/07/23 7:29:51 AM
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interesting

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UnfairRepresent
10/07/23 11:43:18 AM
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FortuneCookie posted...
Historians: "Black people existed?"
That's your takeaway?

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potdnewb
10/07/23 12:01:41 PM
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im not at all surprised
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ClayGuida
10/07/23 12:08:25 PM
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I do love interesting things like this that could change history as we know it. For all we know stone henge could have been constructed by Africans or some shit and blow everyone's mind.

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Mussurana
10/07/23 12:36:57 PM
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It's pretty interesting certainly, an unusual find in rural England for the time period.

Wouldn't personally read too much into it, Wessex was one of the more powerful kingdoms on the island at the time. Isn't too hard to imagine a traveller or trader visiting. Her being a slave isn't necessarily impossible (the Vikings certainly traded slaves and did journey down the African coast, but their Irish operation was so much closer) but it was more common at the time for Saxons to enslave locally, sometimes for sale abroad (maybe she was here to buy?)

I note the story is from 2013, so probably no one has learned any details of her life. One of those little mysteries.

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divot1338
10/07/23 1:04:55 PM
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What if a young nobleman returning from the crusades happened to save the life of a Moor?

And this man or woman felt they had to repay the debt so they returned to England with the noble to fight the tyranny of the Sheriff of Nottingham.

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Mussurana
10/07/23 1:11:54 PM
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divot1338 posted...
What if a young nobleman returning from the crusades happened to save the life of a Moor?

And this man or woman felt they had to repay the debt so they returned to England with the noble to fight the tyranny of the Sheriff of Nottingham.
While it's certainly a fascinating scenario for anyone wishing to write historical fiction you'd be stretching her dates for the 1st crusade (let alone the 3rd, which is when the Robin Hood myths are set).

Might also be noted that whilst Moor was a term that was used for North African peoples at that time, she's sub-saharan (that's the really unusual part).

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