EARL OF ORKNEY — “he is a very well shaped black man”
EARL OF ABINGDON — “of a black complexion”
EARL OF NOTTINGHAM — “a tall, thin, very black man”
EARL OF MIDDLETON — “he is a black man”
EARL OF WEEMS — “he was a black man”
DUKE OF SOMERSET — “a very black complexion”
EARL OF RANELAGH — “he is very fat [and] black”
LORD LEXINGTON — “of a brown complexion”
LORD GREY OF WERK — “a thin, brown, handsome man”
SOURCE;
(Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky, Esq., During the Reigns of King William, Queen Anne, and King George I. Including, Also, the True Secret History of the Rise, Promotions, & of the English and Scots Nobility, Officers, Civil, Military, Naval, and Other Persons of Distinction, from the Revolution, in Their Respective Characters at Large; 1733)
The designation given by the common people of one race to another is almost invariably founded upon some physical feature, and the most natural distinction is that of color where the races differ in complexion…
Skin color is the primary physical criterion by which people have been classified into groups…
Not the color of one’s hair…
Skin color was the keystone trait to which other physical, behavioral, and culture characteristics were linked…
Not the color of one’s hair…
The earliest scientific classifications of human beings used skin color as the cardinal characteristic distinguishing people…
Not the color of one’s hair…
Skin color was the necessary differentiator of types or races of humans in European and Eurocentric race concepts of the eighteenth century…
It was the keystone trait that defined races…
All other attributes included in racial complexes, whether physical, mental, cultural, or psychological, depended on skin color...
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