![]() ![]() Did you know that for Romans ‘skin colour didn’t determine your place in society’ while most Black Tudors were not slaves but servants earning a wage? During chapters on the Tudors, Stuarts and Georgians, the reader gains a clear overview of the economics driving slavery from the Tudor pirates, attempting to steal African gold from the Portuguese to the Stuarts who built up the slave powered colonies in Virginia and Barbados. When primary schools teach the Victorians, how many refer to the conditions under which the cotton for the Lancashire cotton mills is produced?īe ready to learn lots. It makes explicit the gaping hole in the history curriculum. It distils key moments from Roman Britain to 2020, giving the reader a clear sense of the presence of Black people in Britain through the centuries. It is a new much shorter edition of the best-selling tome Black and British – A Forgotten History by David Olusoga and suitable for upper primary and secondary pupils. ![]() Black and British – A Short Essential History is an accessible short history of Black Britons, complete with maps, photos, portraits and a glossary. ![]()
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