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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Queen Charlotte WAS really black. 
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Not by any meaningful modern standard.  The most that can be said is that she had an ancestor about 500 years back (15 generations ago) who may have been a Moor, which was a broad category that included both blacks and Arabs.  I am very white but a quarter Sicilian — there is a really high chance that if you go back 15 generations on my Sicilian side (and maybe even my Irish side), you would find a Moor.  But it would be super offensive to Black people if I were to announce that I was Black.

With 15 generations back, it’s pretty unlikely you’d find any genetic trace of it if you did a dna test on her.  (Although it might be really interesting if you did!). I don’t know enough about genetics to be sure, but if the line traced back directly matrilineal, then she would have a DNA trace of it though, because mitochondrial DNA is passed directly from mother to daughter so you can always trace a matrilineal line that way, absent mutation.

There are actually a lot of British that have an ancestor of moorish descent — 500 years ago thy didn’t think as much in racial terms and there were a lot of moors that went from Spain to England for various reasons (the reconquista, accompanying Catherine of Aragon etc), and so long as you converted to Christianity, you could intermarry with no problems.  I heard a really interesting podcast with someone that did a ton of research into 15th and 16th century English church records.  She then contacted the descendants who had no idea that their great grandfather times 25 was Moorish!

I could say more about the Queen charlotte debate but I know I’m already boring most of you with th history stuff. [/quote]

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