People still very much underestimate the widespreadness of African peoples in as early as ancient and medieval europe. African people have lived in England and every other corner of the Roman Empire since the establishment of their presence there. Tough in limited numbers, being moved there as slaves (along with enslaved European and Middle-Eastern peoples) or being stationed there as soldiers. They were most prominent in the Iberian peninsula. During the middle ages black Africans (both freedmen and enslaved) made up about 10% of the population in Iberian cities. They had a similar presence in Renaissance Italy.
It's almost like history nerds forget that human beings can move around and migrate to different regions for trade or to sell specialty labor (or as slaves).
People still very much underestimate the widespreadness of African peoples in as early as ancient and medieval europe. African people have lived in England and every other corner of the Roman Empire since the establishment of their presence there. Tough in limited numbers, being moved there as slaves (along with enslaved European and Middle-Eastern peoples) or being stationed there as soldiers. They were most prominent in the Iberian peninsula. During the middle ages black Africans (both freedmen and enslaved) made up about 10% of the population in Iberian cities. They had a similar presence in Renaissance Italy.
It's almost like history nerds forget that human beings can move around and migrate to different regions for trade or to sell specialty labor (or as slaves).
People think that Hollywood movies from the 1940s-1980s are the only reliable sources of the demographic makeup of the historical world.
the movies are old, therefore they are fact (this is literally their thought process)