I'd hesitate to use “race” for this. The original settlers of Carthage were Phoenicians, they came from the Mediterranean coast of what's now Lebanon and Syria. read more
like the rest of Carthaginians he was a Punic. a mix of the of the original Phonecian settlers and local Berbers. read more
Hannibal, the Carthaginian general, for example, has been described as a black and, like many of the blacks in Afrocentric studies, appears as such in Rogers's publications. In his discussion of Hannibal, Rogers states that the Carthaginians were descendants of the Phoenicians, a Negroid people, and that until the rise of the doctrine of white superiority Hannibal was traditionally known as a black man. read more