Did you know that there was a Black Douglas Clan in Scotland?
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“A “Black Douglas" must at one time have been a term interchangeable with "a black man"
“Wherever you encounter the Black Douglas in history or tradition you will find he is a Black man"
SOURCE;
(David MacRitchie, "Ancient and Modern Britons. Vol.1"; p. 207; 1884)
The Douglases were one of Scotland's most powerful families, and certainly the most prominent family in lowland Scotland during the Late Middle Ages, often holding the real power behind the throne of the Stewart Kings...
The heads of the House of Douglas held the titles of the Earl of Douglas and later the Earl of Angus...
The ORIGINAL Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Italians, French, Spaniards, Swedes, Russians, and Germans, were 'so called' Black men...
The data to support that conclusion is already plentiful and available on this page...
Up until the late 1700s these countries were predominantly Black...
The vast majority of 'so called' Blacks in the U.S. have ancestors that ruled in—and come from these lands...
Unfortunately, 'so called' blacks in the U.S. have been configured to associate a color with a Race—and their Surname with a “Caucasian slave name”.
Thereby cutting themselves off from any understanding of REAL history, or where they were, and what they were, before their forefathers arrived in the U.S.
All 'so called' blacks in the U.S. have a surname, but how many of them have actually researched it and know anything about its origin and history???
Many 'so called' blacks in the U.S. have changed their last names—which they have deemed to be their “slave names”
In so doing, they gave up a perfectly good 'so called' black European surname, believing that it was indeed a “slave name”
SOURCES;
(John Burke, “A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire: Volume 1”; 1833)
(David Patrick, Francis Hindes Groome, “Chambers's Biographical Dictionary: The Great of All Times and Nations”; 1907)
(David MacRitchie, "Ancient and Modern Britons. Vol.1"; p. 207; 1884)