Ibram kendy says buttuta's claims about the glories of molly were shouted down as lies for a very practical reason. His islamic moroccan society was busy enslaving people from sub saheran africa, as well as s from eastern europe. And so to classify these people as not inferior would have been difficult for slave traders. Just as if people didn't classify the slaves as inferior, would have been bad for business as well.
For much of human history, people viewed themselves as members of tribes or nations but had no notion of “race.” Today, science deems race biologically meaningless. Who invented race as we know it, and why? By John Biewen, with guest Chenjerai Kumanyika.
Photo: The Monument to the Discoveries, Lisbon, Portugal. The highlighted figure in the center is an effigy of Gomes Eanes de Zurara. The figure at the top right is Prince Henry the Navigator. Photo by Harvey Barrison.