Were there black legionaries and auxiliaries?

North Africans, yes

"Black" is too vague

Probably from southern Egypt, and maybe some hired Nubians.

auxiliaries definitely. I'm confident in saying at one point there was at least one black legionaire in the empire.

>>2287309
WE

>>2287309

WE WUZ CENTURIONS'N'SHIEET

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>>2287369

now say it in latin

http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/black-romans/

>we wuz hadrians wall n shieeeeet

Probably; the desert nomads of the Sahara and the Nubians were known to the Romans. It's not inconceivable that a few would end up on the coasts and become Romans.

As long as they earned roman citizenship and filled the height requirements they would probably be allowed in the legion. I'm sure there were black auxilliaries at some point too because there's no reason to not want someone else to die instead of your "real" soldiers just because they're black.

Yes, the Romans handed out citizenship like candy. Due to how they deployed their legions, they would have also been deployed in far off frontiers from their homes like Britain and Germania.

>>2287309

Certainly Nubians did, if you consider them black. Actual sub-Saharan Africans would have been extremely rare, but I'm sure a couple ended up serving in a legion somewhere.

>>2287378
>somos hablando la latina verdad coññññññññññññño *smacks lips*

>>2287378
NOS

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CENTURIONES

>>2287557
SUMUS

>>2287564
EXCREMENTUM

>>2287309
Among Egyptian, Libyan, Numidian, and other north African populations there were "black" people, as well as more obvious and significant Nubian, Aethiopian, Nasamones, Garamantes, etc. The Romans drew both legionaires and auxiliries (mostly the latter) from these populations.

>>2287606
This.

>>2287309
Yes. But very very few