The Long History of African and Caribbean People in Britain
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Development of Modern Racism
There are some people at court in this period that are of African origin. There are certainly Africans here during the children's Stuart period. Probably the most famous, again, non-Sturp period where the Tudor period would probably be John Blank, the royal trumpeter. So he's probably the most well known because we have an illustration of him in the Westminster tournament role of the 1511 or whatever it was. In the Stuart period, less well known. Of course, that was the period when England's involvement in human trafficking became much more significant. And so, as a result of the trafficking of Africans across the Atlantic to the Caribbean, also to North America, we find them
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