Black and Moorish Europeans: the persecution record, and the catacomb test
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Year: 1300 · Places: Europe
SUMMARYBlack and Moorish Europeans: the persecution record, and the catacomb test (Nov 3, 2026). Tito: "They have to say a European made black art so they can avoid the true history that the blacks of Europe faced a genocide. That's why there are so many catacombs." RECORD, persecutions and removals: Lucera, Italy (1300): Charles II of Naples destroyed the Muslim city and sold its people into slavery. Spain (1609–1614): about 300,000 Moriscos expelled. England (1596, draft proclamation 1601): Elizabeth I's open letters to remove "blackamoors" (how far it was enforced is debated). Germany (1937): about 385 Afro-German children forcibly sterilized under the Nazis. RECORD, "European" and "Black" are not opposites: Juan de Pareja (about 1606–1670), a Black Spanish painter, enslaved by Velázquez, freed 1654, his own works in the Prado and the Met. Black people made European art, not only sat for it. RECORD, what the catacombs are on paper: Rome's catacombs, Christian and Jewish burials of the 2nd–5th centuries; Paris (1785–1814), about 6 million dead moved from overflowing city cemeteries; the mass graves found in 2003 in the catacomb of Saints Peter and Marcellinus, Rome (thousands, likely an epidemic). Hostile explanations; test them (Rule 13). THE
TESTbones can testify. Ancient DNA and isotope studies of catacomb and ossuary remains show who they were and where they grew up. A genocide leaves its own signs (one ancestry group, one time layer, signs of violence). OPEN, needs deep research: published aDNA/isotope results for the Roman catacombs and the Paris ossuary
LENS (WW9)Black and Moorish Europeans were expelled, enslaved and erased, and the full count was never made (Pattern from the cases above). "Genocide of the Blacks of Europe" as one event stays Open until the bones and the records add up.