Black Tudors, with Miranda Kaufmann
Tuesday, 17th October, 2017
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Five Leaves Bookshop*
14a Long Row, Nottingham, NG1 2DH
14a Long Row, Nottingham, NG1 2DH

Yet their experience was extraordinary because, unlike the majority of Africans across the rest of the Atlantic world, in England they were free. They lived in a world where skin colour was less important than religion, class or talent: before the English became heavily involved in the slave trade. Their stories challenge the traditional narrative that racial slavery was inevitable.
Miranda Kaufmann is a senior research fellow at the University of London’s Institute of Commonwealth Studies
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