Before Othello: Elizabethan Representations of Sub-Saharan Africans

3 videos • 349 views • by Brooklyn Saint Mickell Descriptions of early travelers tales about Africans. Much of the claims were false, exaggerated, hallucinated, or purposely misleading. This excerpt by Dr. Alden Vaughan and Dr. Virginia Vaughan is very revealing in just how far fetched some of the tales were which were passed around about early African peoples