And as touched on in ( MisBeee Writes: Azania: exploring cultural unity across ancient African),Īfrican kingdoms ruled by the likes of Emperor Musa They came to England as skilled artisans, dignitaries and as royalty. So Africans were not just slaves, ( see MisBeee Writes: Belle a new kind of English rose). Historian and writer Onyeka challenges beliefs That their presence in numbers can be traced back to 12 th century. In Onyeka's book Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, Their Presence, Status and Origins, he suggests that it is highly probably These soldiers were among troops that defended Hadrian's Wall in northern England in 3AD, Peter added.īritish-born 'Africans' did not appear in Britain until 1505, according to Fryer - something that historian Onyeka Nubia disputes. These soldiers were a division of the Moors named after a former Roman emperor called Marcus Aurelius. © photographed by MisBeee Writes from postcardĮnglish historian Peter Fryer, who wrote Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain, tells us that there were Africans in Britain before the English came here!Īccording to his research, Africans were soldiers in the Roman imperial army that occupied the southern part of the island for three and a half centuries. An 'depiction 'of an African dignitary visiting Queen Victorian
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