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Why are blacks called negroes?

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11y ago
Updated: 10/17/2022

This notion that Negroes was a Spanish term for "black" is incorrect. Negroes came from the Ethiopians dialect. It was a term to distinguish the difference between Ethiopians and the new Immigration of refugees from the East beyond the rivers of Nergo.

According to Ethiopian tales, tribes of people flooded into Ethiopia (now called Africa) roughly around 70AD, in a means of escaping the invading Roman armies.

By 922AD Ethiopians began trading these "Negroes" as slaves in exchange for rum and guns. However as the slave trade began too boom, the same Ethiopian "Negroes" traders began to be kidnapped themselves by, Europeans, Muslims and "Jews".

Till this day the difference between Negroes and Africans in the Western Hemisphere is not well defined. Ignorance has lead many to put all "black skinned" people into the same category called "Negroes" however this statement is not true.

Africa is broken up into many tribes and creeds, Negroes do not retaining any original ancestor from modern day African nations. Many African tribes still question today where Negroes came from.

The word "negro" means "black" in Spanish and Portuguese, from the Latin Niger ("black") and Greek Νέγρος Négros ("black").

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