Aaron (in Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare and
Peele): as alien, 6 , 9 , 44 , 45 ,65–67,
82–83, 87 , 100 ; blackness, 6 , 67 , 73 , 80 ,
88–94, 96 , 98 , 160 ; cultural origins, 75 ,
80–82, 93 , 168 ; discrimination against,
65–68, 79 , 83 ,88–91,93–99, 126 ; versus
Eleazar, 22 , 67 , 119 , 126 ,127–28, 130 , 134 ,
145 ; incorporation, 5 , 14 ,69–70,73–74,
79 ,80–88, 92 , 119 , 145 , 168 ; as infidel, 79 ,
93 ,96–98; versus Muly Mahamet, 45 ,
66–67, 68 ; offspring, 88–89,91–94, 96 ,
98–99; versus Othello, 22 ,119–20, 176 ;
stereotype and, 87 ,88–89; Tamora and,
79 – 82 ,85–94,98–99
Abdelmelec (in The Battle of Alcazar): ethnic
identity, 22 ,30–32, 34 ,43–44; global poli-
tics,33–36, 38 , 42 ; history, 29
Adams, John Quincy, 159
Aeneid, The, 78 , 82 , 94 , 191
Africa: and Atlantic slavery, 11–13,17–18, 20 ,
50–51,58–60,104–8,192–93; blackness,
56 , 60 ,61–62, 131 ,148–52, 153 ; Christian-
ity, 48 , 57 , 144 ,147–51; classical descrip-
tions of, 58 , 139 ; Commission for Africa,
7–8; as “dark continent,” 18 , 46 , 47 , 51 ,
63 , 139 ; disease, 60–61, 147 ; Egypt, 5 , 6 ,
15 , 17 , 146 , 148 , 149 , 153 , 185 ; England
and, 3 , 6 , 10 , 16 , 17 ,24–28, 30 ,45–64;
Europeans and, 15 , 28 , 50 , 54 , 143 , 147 ,
149 , 153 ; history of, 138–54; Moors in, 143 ,
147 ,149–51,153–54; Negroes in, 143 , 144 ,
146–47,149–50, 151 ; North Africa (Bar-
bary), 16–17, 46 ,48–49,51–55,57–63,
149–50, 152 ; outside influences in, 14 ,
143–48,150–51,153–54; and Portugal, 22 ,
23 ,24–27, 38 ,47–48,146–48; regions, 10 ,
149–53; religions, 24 , 53 , 54 ,57–58,
139–40,142–43, 144 ,147–51; strangeness,
10 ,12–14, 16 , 22 , 58 , 81 , 152 , 175 ; West
Africa (Guinea, Benin), 10 , 11 , 15 , 24 ,
47–50,55–63, 148 .See alsoAlcazar, battle
of; Barbary; The History and Description
of Africa
Africans: Abassins, 149 , 151 ; Ethiopians, 11 ,
62 , 146 ,149–50, 151 , 194 ; ethnicity, 13 , 47 ,
103 , 106 , 139 ,143–46,149–50,153–54;
Moors, 3–4, 6 ,10–13, 15 , 16 , 143 , 147 ,
149–50, 151 ,153–54; Negroes, 143 , 144 ,
146–47,149–50, 151 , 159 ; Othello as, 3 , 4 ,
9 ,10–13; in Shakespeare, 10 , 147 , 191 ; skin
colors,147–52.See alsoMoors; Negroes
Africanus, John Leo (al-Hasan ibn Mo-
hammed el Wezaz al-Fasi): as author of
The Geographical History of Africa, 138 ;
hybrid identity, 14 ,138–41, 153 ; and Oth-
ello, 139 ,142–43; and Pory, John, 6 , 19 ,
139–43, 146 , 147 ,148–53. See alsoThe
History and Description of Africa
Alcazar, battle of, 17 ,21–24,27–28, 38
Alday, James, 24 , 54
Algiers, 168
Aleppo, 187
Alleyn, Edward, 159
All’s Lost by Lust(William Rowley), 193
Amurath (Murad Can), 32–33, 35 , 36
Andrews, Kenneth, 105
Arabians: in Africa, 139 , 143 , 144 ,145–46, 151 ;
and the East, 15 , 49 ; Moors as, 1–2, 5 , 9 ,
31–32, 153 , 187
Armitage, David, 46 , 62
assimilation, 18 , 81 , 168 , 169 ,175–76Banes, Edward, 104
barbarism: in Africa, 150 ; and Barbarians, 5 , 22 ,
30–31, 34 ,43–44, 119 ,157–58; Goths and,
72 , 76 ; of Moors, 6 , 45 ,67–68, 69 , 79 , 180