Yazid"s first order of business was persecuting the Jews of the city of Tétouan. In deference to Yazid"s father, Sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah, the Jews of Tétouan denied financial support to Yazid and his effort to overthrow his father. Although observers remark that Yazid authorized his "black" troops to plunder Tétouan"s Jewish quarter, Historian Allan R. Meyers suggests the slave-soldiers of Morocco were not sub-Saharan Africans but dark-complected indigenous North Africans.