From long forgotten records, Kaufmann has unearthed the remarkable stories of Africans who lived free in Tudor England. They were present at some of the defining moments of the Tudor age. They were christened, married and buried by the Church. And their stories have remained unt…
Le rabat de la jaquette indique : "A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian diver to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose. From long-fo…
They were present at some of the defining moment of the Tudor age. They were christened, married and buried by the Church. And their stories have been untold for many years. Kaufman has unearthed the remarkable stories of Africans who lived free in Tudor ENgland, and in doing so…
Door middel van de levensbeschrijvingen van een tiental Afrikanen die tijdens de Tudor dynastie in Engeland woonden, rekent de schrijfster af met het fabeltje dat Afrikanen toen als slaven werden gehouden.
Miranda Kaufmann is a senior research fellow at the University of London's Institute of Commonwealth Studies. She has appeared on Sky News, the BBC and Al Jazeera, and she's written for The Times, Guardian and BBC History Magazine. She lives in London.
A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian diver to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose. From long-forgotten records emerge the remarkab…
"A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian diver to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose. From long-forgotten records emerge the remarka…