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Black Tudors

The Untold Story

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Black Tudors

By: Miranda Kaufmann
Narrated by: Corrie James
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A Black porter publicly whips a White English gentleman in a Gloucestershire manor house. A heavily pregnant African woman is abandoned on an Indonesian island by Sir Francis Drake. A Mauritanian diver is dispatched to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose.... Miranda Kaufmann reveals the absorbing stories of some of the Africans who lived free in Tudor England.

From long-forgotten records, remarkable characters emerge. They were baptized, married, and buried by the Church of England. They were paid wages like any other Tudors. Their stories, brought viscerally to life by Kaufmann, provide unprecedented insights into how Africans came to be in Tudor England, what they did there, and how they were treated. A groundbreaking, seminal work, Black Tudors challenges the accepted narrative that racial slavery was all but inevitable and forces us to reexamine the 17th century to determine what caused perceptions to change so radically.

©2017 Miranda Kaufmann (P)2017 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Europe Great Britain Historical England Tudor Middle Ages Africa Royalty Imperialism Latin America United Kingdom Social justice British Empire Tudor England
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Loved the stories in this book, but all the chapters are mislabelled for the audiobook. Hopefully this can be corrected soon!

Great stories

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a fascinating trip through Tudor England and immigration. Nothing we do now is as new as we think it to be.

multiculturalism starts early

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"Well-researched" is the faint praise of reviews. This topic is most interesting, but the narrative slews back and forth over centuries and locations and is almost impossible to follow. The text is costive with far too many details which were better edited out and replaced with a summary.

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