>>12906789In my opinion, Pushkin's great-grandfather, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, was most likely a slave from some Central African tribe. He was freed after coming to Russia and went on to become a noble, major-general, and millitary engineer. East Africans were, for the most part, not enslaved by Europeans or even Arabs.
There is a funny passage in the wiki about his origins though:
>Vladimir Nabokov cast doubt on Gannibal's ancestry, based on research findings during his work translating Pushkin's novel Eugene Onegin. Nabokov disagreed with Anuchin's theory, stating that it was just as likely that Gannibal was referring to "the Lagona region of equatorial Africa, south of Lake Chad."[3] Support for Anuchin's theory of Ethiopian birth declined after it was exposed as racially based, implying that "hamitic" Ethiopian origins better explained Gannibal's success than "negroid" origins.[3]kek
