
Black Tudors: England's Other Countrymen
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Is There a Bigger Picture?
There are three documents of important note, two letters and a draft proclamation. The first letter talks about people of african descent being present in england. It refers primarily to ten africa brought to england by sir thomas baskerville. Second letter incrudes a dutch slave trader working from lubeck. And it claims that casper van senden has transported a number of english prisoners as a result of the anglo spanish war. But historians sometimes say that these documents provide evidence of a imigration system that could be used to expel africans. We're actually not. There may be a bigger picture that we cannot yet understand, perhaps we never will.
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