Is it true before the 1800s no one viewed blacks as a different

Just saying, if I was a religious invader in 900AD, or whatever, and I encountered blacks for the first time, I would probably not consider them to be in the image of God. I always wonder how those dudes reacted to them at the time.

>>3181689

According to Democrats the ancients had no reaction to seeing black people. They viewed black skin as just another random physical trait like eye color. They were supposedly more concerned with "culture" than physical traits. Yeah. People actually believe that.

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>>3181569
Nah, Egyptian and Greek missionaries definitely considered subsaharan Nubians and Ethiopians to be fully human and converted them. And the Portuguese did too.

>>3181721
>They viewed black skin as just another random physical trait like eye color
This is exactly how Herodotus describes Ethiopians tho.

>>3181721
Which Democrats?

>>3181783
19th century US democrats.

>>3181569
Depends on who you ask. Most societies were ethnocentric though, even calling people of their own races subhumans. But if said people were integrated, or in europes case converted to Christianity. No one cared.