(Library of Congress)Was one of the Plymouth Colony settlers a black man? He was identified as “Abraham Pearse, blackamore.”In those days, a blackamore, a derivative of “black Moor,” was a term used to describe someone with dark skin. (AP)Brad Pierce, a radiologist from Little Rock, reviewed DNA test of descendants of Abraham Pearse, according to a 2011 WBUR radio interview. Some evidence indicates that there was a black man who was considered a “transient in Plymouth Colony” as early as 1622, Stratton wrote. By the time of Trayes’s trial, slavery had been established in Plymouth Colony for over ten years,” according to the Pilgrim Hall Museum.

Source: Washington Post November 21, 2017 12:07 UTC