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Question: Shakespeare was Ethiopian (pt!. 2)!?
okay okay, i get it!. shakespeare was NOT ethiopian!. but my mother told me of a man (she specified as shakespeare) who had a grandfather or great-grandfather who immigrated from ethiopia and came to russia and married a russian princess!. at the time, the man was a peasant, but since he was really loyal (either to the russian royal family or the ethiopian royal family), he was givin a job in the high departments and got married!. but if wasnt shakespeare, then who!? and where do you know that!? if you found it out at a website, can you please give me the url!?!?!? thank you sooo much!!Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Alexander Pushkin's great-grandfather was Abram Petrovich Gannibal, an Ethiopian who was kidnapped,enslaved and subsequently auctioned off to Peter the Great who set him free!. He later married into Russian nobility!. Perhaps this is your "Shakespire"!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
The Russian poet, Pushkin, had a maternal great-grandfather from Logone!. That's now part of Cameroon!. Pushkin's paternal lineage is very much noble!. The African wasn't exactly a slave, as noted earlier!. He was actually an engineer who had been trained in France!. But he did find favor with Peter the Great and married into higly favored family!.
No way it was Shakespeare, though!. He was from a long line of Englishmen and his lineage is pretty well documented!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
It was Alexander Pushkin, of Ethiopian decent!.
Read about it and other Russians with Ethiopian blood:
http://www!.pbs!.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/!.!.!.
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Perhaps you are thinking of French novelists, Alexander Dumas pere and fil, or else Alexander Pushkin, Russia's greatest poet!?
The elder Dumas, who wrote "The Count of Monte Crisco" and "The Three Musketeers", was the grandson of Marquis Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman, and Marie-Celeste Dumas, a freed Afro-Caribbean slave!.
Pushkin was the great grandson of Abram Petrovich Gannibal, a page of Peter the Great who came from the Sultanate of Logone-Birni located south of Lake Chad in Cameroon!.
Historians haven't been able to trace Shakespeare's family tree back past his maternal grandparents and possibly his paternal grandfather--all of whom lived around Stratford, so we'll never know for sure his complete ancestry!. However, given the time period in which he lived and his childhood spent in rural Stratford, almost all of his ancestors were most probably English!. William Shakespeare's father, John Shakespeare, a glovemaker, has been documented as living in Stratford as early as 1552!. John was possibly the son of a farmer, Richard Shakespeare!. The playwright's mother, Mary Arden, was the daughter of Robert Arden of Wilmcote, part of the Warwickshire landed gentry, and Agnes Hill, formerly Webbe, whom Robert married in 1548!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Shakespeare is a kinda common Ethiopian last name!.
And no pictures were ever commisioned to be painted or drawn of Shakespeare because he was not of noble blood!.
He wrote alot about black women, favorably!. Why would he write about black women at all if he wasn't black!. And Elizabethan England was not a place, aside from recent slavery from Africa coming over, where one would see an abundance of black people represented in a positive light!. So, Shakespeare may have been black and Ethiopian, stationed in a world where he was indeed a minority!.
Shakespearean works featuring black people include:
The Dark Lady poem
Othello (about a black man)
The Merchant of Venice (Morrocan Prince)
Caliban the slave, whose mother is from Algiers in The Tempest
And his works suspiciously, condescended the ethnocentric views of Elizabethan England, during the time of exploration!.
See here,
http://www!.geocities!.com/Wellesley/7261/!.!.!.
But I have definitely read somewhere, that he was like half Subsaharan African!. And it was in the same book that talked about how Thomas Jefferson was part Middle Eastern!.Www@QuestionHome@Com