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Old 1st December 2018, 07:19 PM   #27
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Mark is so correct in that, the Caribbean pirates were not all white faces. In fact we can read scholars pretending that, the first buccaneers in recorded history HAD DARK SKIN.The record in question is the journal of a French sailor who, on the coast of Hispaniola, met two men he describes as “a mulatto and a negro.”
Meanwhile i have found this interesting NIGERIAN PERSPECTIVE, which includes a chart with exemplars of manilhas from various origins; in case one whishes to compare and figure out from where the Wydah lots were provenant.


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