But even slaves of a thousand generations may be born with hearts bright enough to hope and dark enough to do what must be done. Even a slave can rise from the dust, and whet his gaze into a knife, and tell his master: "You will never own me." -Greg Keyes
This man right here is among the realist I've ever had the pleasure to interact with, furthermore you're not a medieval fiction fan if you don't read J.C. Duncan
@aledeniz What really pisses me off with history twitter's obsession with 'this guy' (he is called Chase btw, no-one mentions that or links to him.) is that people instantly talk about if his race justifies his interest.
They don't fucking do that for white guys playing samurai.
@GotBlessTheUSA@archaeologymag There are Blacks native to North Africa you dipshit. E-M81 originates in the Horn and Sudan and as far as Blacks being part of the Royal family, there's African Americans descended from Ramses the 2.
@JCDuncanauthor@Purpura57912934 Ok I peep what you mean. As the aristocrats became more and more ethnicity Greek, the more the "Roman" identity shifted to be Greek
@JCDuncanauthor@Purpura57912934 I have a question fam, do you think the Eastern Romans saw themselves as a different ethnic cultural entity? As an American from Connecticut I have a very different culture than an Iowan but we both consider ourselves American. Just curious