How a Forgotten Treaty and a Hidden Flag Led to the Erasure of Black Sovereignty in the U.S.

The Fall of the Moors in America

How a Forgotten Treaty and a Hidden Flag Led to the Erasure of Black Sovereignty in the U.S.

By Devon T. White | ThaWilsonBlock Magazine

“Once the Moorish flag was hidden, the path to Black enslavement was paved.”

The Hidden Origins of American Sovereignty

Long before the United States became a global superpower, its rebellious European settlers had to ask for something they didn’t have: permission to exist.

When colonists in North America declared independence from Britain, they didn’t simply announce a new nation — they petitioned the world’s existing empires for recognition of their sovereignty.

But none of the established powers would give them legitimacy. That is, until the Empire of the Moors — an Islamic nation of African lineage — granted their request.

🖼️ Suggested Artwork: Illustration of a Moorish ambassador receiving a petition from early colonists in a candle-lit hall, 1700s style.

The Treaty That Protected Black Lives

The Moors, whose legacy includes centuries of rule in Spain, North Africa, and beyond, operated under Islamic law. And according to that law, no Black person identifying as a Moor or Muslim could be enslaved.

That protection was part of the treaty the Moors offered to the colonists.

But what happened next was nothing short of historical betrayal.

“The Moorish flag — a red emblem on a green field — was folded and locked away, erasing the very people who gave America its legal right to exist.”

The Real Cherry Tree Story

You’ve heard the story of George Washington chopping down a cherry tree. But what if the “cherry” was not a tree at all, but a flag?

The Moorish flag, red like a cherry, set against a green background, was symbolically buried — locked away by Washington himself, according to oral tradition.

🖼️ Suggested Artwork: A dramatic image of George Washington locking a bright red-and-green flag into a vault; symbolic representation of erasure.

With that act, the protections for Moorish people were hidden, and all Black people in the emerging United States were declared enslaveable — regardless of identity.

From Republic to Corporation: The Legal Shell Game

Here’s what they don’t teach in school:

There’s a legal difference between the United States and the United States of America.

1. The “United States” was the original sovereign republic.
2. The “United States of America” became a corporate entity, shifting the relationship between people and government.

Still, every child recites:

“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands…”

But hold up — is this a republic or a democracy?

“We were told as children that America is a republic — yet we send soldiers to die for a democracy that legally doesn’t exist here.”

The Collapse of Moorish Power

After the fall of Moorish Spain in 1492, a coordinated European campaign to erase Black Islamic influence began.

Soon after, Moorish power in the Americas also collapsed.

Their flag buried.

Their treaty ignored.

Their people reclassified — from sovereigns to slaves.

🖼️ Suggested Artwork: A timeline graphic showing the Fall of Granada (1492), the U.S. founding (late 1700s), and the symbolic burial of the Moorish flag.

Why This History Was Hidden — and Why It Matters

This story isn’t a conspiracy theory. It’s a call to recover buried legal history, cultural identity, and sovereign truth.

When the Moors granted this nation sovereignty, they embedded a protection that could’ve changed the entire course of Black American life.

But that protection was intentionally erased.

And that erasure laid the legal foundation for slavery, racial disenfranchisement, and structural inequality that continues to this day.

🧠 REFLECT & SHARE

1. What flags have been buried in your history?
2. Who benefits from your forgotten sovereignty?
3. And what will you do with the truth?

About the Author

Devon T. White is a writer, legal advocate, and historian currently incarcerated at Solano State Prison. His work brings together lost historical truths, sovereign law, and calls for justice in the Black community.

Contact info (optional for print):

Devon T. White, CDCR #BH3933

Solano State Prison, D-24 136UPPER

P.O. Box 4000, Vacaville, CA 95696

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