The Moors: The Misconception Of Slavery

The Moors: The Misconception Of Slavery There are times in an academic career where people can only extract but so much information from a history textbook. In result instead of gaining a full understanding of the topic,we are left with information with little substance. We start to realize that there is a limit to what there is to know , then Questions are started to be asked. An example of a question is, How did slavery begin? Who are the moors? What part do they play in the grand scheme of things? “Before Africa was called such, it was called Libya because the first and true recorded Libyans were in fact dark skinned woolly haired Moors. Libyans were called Moors in the book “The Cambridge ancient history: The High Empire, A.D. 70-192”
The amount of white slaves under the influence of the rs reached 1.2 million by 1780(Guttman). In the book “Mirrors” by Eduardo Galeano, Galeano says that,”99% of portugal was illiterate”. The portuguese initiated what gradually became the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade mainly through slave raids along the coasts of Africa.(Omowale) “The first of these raids came in 1444 and was led by Lancarate de Freites”.(Omowale) The practice of Slave Raids deemed to be a “extremely dangerous “ way to obtain slaves. (Omowale) So they decided that purchasing them would be the better course of action. For it did not require a lot of effort on the part of the Europeans. It was said that Queen Elizabeth the First funded the first slave ship named, “The Good Ship
In recent Archeology and Scholarship now shed some attention on the Moors who flourished in Al-Andulus for more than 700 years.(Atlantic Black Star) In accordance to the Atlanta Black Star article It was stated that,” the Moors brought enormous learning to spain that over centuries would percolate through the rest of Europe.It was this system of education , taken to Europe by the Moors that seeded the European Renaissance and brought the continent of the 1000 years of intellectual and physical gloom of the middle ages.” The academic accomplishments of the Moors in Spain had lasting effects;education was universal in Mourish Spain , while in christian europe 99% of the population were illiterate.Even kings and queens could not read or write.(Atlanta Black Star) There were efforts to get this era expunged from historical record by spanish rulers.(Atlanta Black Star)Even though the Moors contribute the the learning of the Europeans by teaching them things that were seeds of the renaissance such as, Advanced Agricultural Techniques, Human Flight, Urban Utilities, Medicine, Fashion and Hygiene and countless others that are probably not documented.
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