WAS LEONARDO Da VINCI'S MOTHER A WHITE SLAVE?

 A DOCUMENT has been found that is steering academics and researchers to the notion that Leonardo Da Vinci, the genius artist, was not 100% Italian.  Rather his mother had been sex trafficked and started life as a woman from the Caucus of Central Asia.  Called White Slaves to discern that we are not talking slaves from the African continent, it is true that people were captured and put into slavery repeatedly in Europe, in particular the lands that are now the Ukraine.  That's me talking.

Here is one of the articles about this discovery: Arstechnica - Science - LEONARDO DA VINCI's MOTHER A SLAVE  The article mentions various theories that have spawned books on his genealogy.  It mentions that Leonardo's father married a few times and had a great number of children.

Excerpt: As for Vecce, he acknowledged that his own research had been "guided" by the slave hypotheses put forth by Paratico and Vezzosi, although he initially resisted the idea.  But then he discovered a document dated November 2, 1452, six months after Leonardo had been born. emancipating an enslaved Circassian woman named Caterina on behalf of her mistress, the wife of Donato di Felippo di Salvestro Nati.  The notary who signed the document was none other than Ser Piero, Leonardo's father.

THE HISTORY OF WHITE PEOPLE by NELL IRVIN PAINTER : BOOK REVIEW by ANCESTRY WORSHIP GENEALOGY

I've been reading NELL IRVIN PAINTER's book "The History of White People" which is Copyright 2010 and published by W.W. Norton and Company. I'll be sprinking this blog with excerpts from that book here and there.

This is the story of European slavery ("Whites enslaving Whites"), class in Europe and America, which included indentured servants and slaves, and the notions of who was more worthy.

There was a progression of early theorists who decided that being low class had everything to do with intelligence and character as genetic; the "imbeciles" and "morons" and "the unfit" were the target of sterilization for the good of society. ( I note: This is the danger of genealogy motivated by snobbery!)

Painter does an excellent job of reporting the notions of race or ethnicity as individuals are considered to be of more or less worthy because of these notions. Racism was inherent in the descriptions of Europeans as "Nordic" or "Alpine" or "Mediterranean" as determined by physical features rather than country of origin.

This book may remind you of your own bad experiences or what your ancestors experienced because of their origins.

Perhaps they were considered of subnormal intelligence and not up to decent jobs because they were Italian or Slovak?

Are you yourself still experiencing intolerance and prejudice based, not on your character or deeds, but because of your ethnicity?