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Thread #76372   Message #1461287
Posted By: GUEST,Allen
14-Apr-05 - 02:19 PM
Thread Name: Black Britons & Folk Music?
Subject: RE: Black Britons & Folk Music?
Azzizi, you might be interested to know that there's a school of though which holds that Othello the Moor is a corruption of Moorean. The Venetian captain he probably based him on was from Moorea in Greece.
A lot of black Britons went to Sierra Leone in the 19th century. The USA established Liberia after being impressed with the colony.