Kammermohr

thumb| Portrait of the Countess Palatine Francisca Christina of Sulzbach with her "Kammermohr" [[Ignatius Fortuna, by Johann Jakob Schmitz, Cologne 1772]] thumb|Sophie Amalie of Lüneburg, queen of Denmark, with her hand upon her Kammermohr, 17th-century. Kammermohr (or Hofmohr; pl. Kammermohren, lit. "chamber-black") was a German-language term since the 18th century for a court servant of black skin colour, which had by that time long been a common feature in European courts.

==History== People of black skin colour from the Orient, Africa and America had often been taken to Europe as valets during the time of colonialism. This became common in the 16th-century and continued to be fashionable until the early 19th-century. The term Kammermohr was first used as an official term in a court protocol in 1747 in Saxony.