From what I understand the modern concept of race arose during the age of colonialism, but before that time, was there any documented accounts of racism against black people by white people?

  • carbohydra [des/pair]
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    3 years ago

    I don't know, it's very possible. Greeks took fellow Greeks as slaves, so I don't think "slave" and "black" had the same overlap then. It's also possible "shit" got lost in translation (shit - dirt - soil - earth - brown perhaps). Then there's the whole "deciding whether Egyptians were black" thing and I don't think any of that is very useful or interesting. While they had good boats, getting below the Sahara would be more difficult in any case.