Africans And Moors In European Art

Is that Jesus in the picture?

In the PBS magazine Frontline, it was claimed by one Mario de Valdes y Cocom that Charlotte may have had African ancestry and that painter Allan Ramsay, a noted abolitionist, emphasized the Queen's alleged "mulatto" appearance to support the anti-slavery movement.[33] Valdes incorrectly claimed that an early-19th century medical practitioner, Baron Stockmar, was Queen Charlotte's personal physician and that he had described the Queen as having a "mulatto face" in his autobiography.[33][34][35] According to Valdes, Queen Charlotte's apparent African features could have been inherited three to six times over from one ancestor nine generations removed, Margarida de Castro e Sousa, a 15th-century Portuguese noblewoman, who traced her ancestry to King Afonso III of Portugal (1210–1279) and one of his mistresses, Madragana (c. 1230–?). Critics of Valdes' theory point out that Margarita's and Madragana's distant perch in the queen's family tree – nine and 15 generations removed respectively – makes any African ancestry that they bequeathed to Charlotte negligible.[36] Charlotte shared descent from Madragana with a large proportion of Europe's royalty and nobility. Moreover, it is not certain that Madragana was a Black African woman. In fact, the notion that Madragana was a "Moor" appears to have originated centuries after her death, with an author named Duarte Nunes de Leão, writing in 1600.[37] And, in the context of the Iberian Reconquista, any Muslim, regardless of ethnic origin, including Europeans who had converted to Islam, were referred to as "Moors". Some researchers believe Madragana to have been a Mozarab: an Iberian Christian of Sephardi Jewish origin, living in Spain when it was under Muslim control:[38]

Even if Madragana was ethnically African and she was Charlotte's 16th great-grandmother by blood, she would have been one of Charlotte's 16,384 16th great-grandparents, making Madragana's genetic contribution to Charlotte's heritable traits just 0.006 percent of her total inherited DNA.

@ Yeah right!

BS.... that all the PBS article interpretation is.
AFRICAN THIS AFRICAN THAT!

Okay Jake, I see you don't like what Wikipedia reports. About my question though, is the photo you posted with this blog, a representation of Jesus? I notice the boy holding the hem of his robe.

Saint,

Of course you know that the dark skinned people shown in your video are not Black Americans who are descendents of plantation slavery, would you agree with me?