“Snowden approached…all of the writings of the ‘classical writers’ of Greece and Rome for the actual references made to Africa and Africans…Ethiopians were the yardstick by which blackness was measured…European family crests showing black faces and coarse hair are accompanied frequently by such African derivatives as Mawr, Moore, Moorehead, Morris, Morrison, Mora, Maurice, Mareau, Moretti, Muir, Mohr, meaning a person from Mauritania [the Moors].

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