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Race in Antiquity

The Ancients

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Ancient European Attitudes to Sub-Saharan Africans

Luke, good to have you back on the podcast and it's good to be doing it in person this time. Looking at ancient Mediterranean, ancient European attitudes towards sub-Saharan Africans back in antiquity is really interesting. Back then, there isn't this discrimination which seems to occur later in history. For them, they don't see Africans as being inherently inferior. There's nothing particularly heinous about being a dark sea in Africa or a sub-Saharan African. It's actually quite the opposite.

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