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Originally Posted by Errigal
Yes but I think they were quite rare and they must have been just barely sub-Saharan in origin. Perhaps they managed to have the occasional Congolese Pygmy who survived the journey but he would have been for novelty purposes only. The shipping costs were outrageous in those days.  |
Well, Rome incorporated tribes/nations that they had conquered (or hired) in their legions. But they never extended beyond Northern Africa. So, Sub-Saharan Africans would have been more the case of exotic slaves and gladiators than anything else.
Surely if there had been a contingent of Black legionaires moving into European land, that would have been noticed in the texts of the classic historians and chroniclers.
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