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> In general, however, it also strikes me as most likely that people
> in 16th century England had so little experience with African skin color
> and features that they thought little about them.
Perhaps. Recent scholarship, by which I mean mainly books by Nabil Matar,
has shown that at least those in London had in fact much more exposure to
the various hues of African skin color than many have previously suspected.
Peter C. Herman
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