Race in Antiquity
The Ancients
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Skin Colour - It's Nothing to the Skin Colour
In the ancient world, skin colour was not a factor when it came to being accepted as part of society. People could go to certain places and immerse themselves in their culture before they were considered 'inferior' In Russian 18th century you have Ganobor Petrovich - he's like an African adult son of or given to Peter the Great as a gift. I think comes from somewhere in sort of central, west-central Africa. He's a great freezer and then adopts him as a son and then he enterslike the Russian military. Some people might use that as a descriptor but like I say it would be the same thing as being called blonde. And actually
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