>>8671127Indigenous North Africans were black. North African only begins to whiten/lighten post Greco-Roman period. However, at the time of Moorish Spain, both the Berber and Arab populations were still primarily black.
We know this because all the primary source text and artistic renderings by Iberian Peninsula/Western Europeans depicted the Moors as black and wrote the words such as their skin is the color of “melted pitch” that specify how black they were. The primary source documents are Alfonso (X) of Aragon’s “Cantigas de Santa Maria,” the Franc ruler Charlemagne’s “Song of Roland,” and the Pernes, France, mural of Ysore being killed by a javelin to the neck by the French William of Orange (not to be confused with the English one). All of these works were completed while the Moors still ruled in the Iberian Peninsula including what would be called Spain, Portugal (well…. not after Ysore died probably since he ruled there and controlled Sicily), and Sicily. Written and produced between the 10th and 13th Centuries of the common era.
These are primary source depictions by Europeans who were fighting the Moors.
Pic related,Ysore the Giant, the Saracen, being killed still on a mural in Pernes, France.
