I’m reading Black and British by David Olusoga, a terrific read
reaching back to Roman times when forces of Afro-Romans arrived in the third
century and were stationed in Cumbria. Olusoga sweeps forward through the
Blackamoors, during Elizabethan times, to Black Britains who fought at
Trafalgar, through to the wars of the 20th century. He writes much
about the Georgian fashion for having a young black pageboy, such children were
often treated like pets among the wealthy, dressed up and fete...
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