Popular press linked Africans to monstrous births in grotesque pamphlet imagery

Evidence

Stories of monstrous births and of demons, hairy beasts, and multi-headed creatures, often connected to the presence of Africans, abounded in the popular press in newspapers and broadsheets in London and other cities. A 1605 pamphlet titled Strange News claims a number of strange and grotesque births; an African is depicted alongside a four-headed monster and a skeletal beast. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 310

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the manufacturing happened in cheap broadsheet media, not just theology — a distribution channel the reader’s thesis should include.