How were black people treated in Roman times?

There's one thing not mentioned here (which I will mention a mere year and 6 months after) is that black and white in ancient times were not the same classification as black and white now which ... “how can the old people only be imprecisely talking out of their arse, and the new ones scientifically so?” read more

Unlike modern times, black people in Roman history were not discriminated against for their skin color or their physical features. Roman slavery did not include black inferiority, and Greek and Latin writers rarely distinguished between skin colors, unlike writers in modern languages. read more

There was no single “status” of black people in the Roman Empire. The question seems to assume (1) that Romans treated Africans in a single, uniform way; while keeping open the possibility that (2) that treatment may have been inferior. read more

A Roman for example wouldn't have grouped Gauls, Goths, and Latins together into a 'white race' that is binarily opposed to a Lybian 'black race,' for example. However, the Romans had tons of interaction with Africans in general - whether or not they were"black" is unknown (Honestly, define black.), and they had different views of all of them. read more