African and Caribbean people in Britain: a 2,000-year history
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Are Africans Enslaved?
Those who came with the invading Roman army were probably not sort of welcome with open arms. So it's difficult to say exactly what reception they would have had. But our interest is mainly concerned with their position, status and so on in society. It used to be the kind of idea that well, yeah, there might have been a few Africans, but they were probably enslaved,. That's the only way in which they could possibly have appeared or one could possibly think of Africans in that period. All the evidence suggests exactly the opposite.
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