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All people are of African origin on a very long timescale of over 50,000-300,000 years ago. That there were Africans in a more modern Britain sooner (just 5000
by neximo64 10y ago
All people are of African origin on a very long timescale of over 50,000-300,000 years ago.
That there were Africans in a more modern Britain sooner (just 5000 years ago), is interesting for this reason and it begs the question as to where the population went to-
- dghf 10y ago> it begs the question as to where the population went to I'm guessing they married out. I cannot find a reference, but I seem to remember learning that eighteenth century Covent Garden in London had a significant black population, possibly former slaves freed by and then recruited into the British Army during the Revolutionary War. Within a century, that population had gone, at least as a distinct, visible group: the original population were all male and had taken local wives.
- yandago 10y ago>I cannot find a reference Stop here.
- dghf 10y agoWhy? Someone might know what I'm talking about and provide the reference that eluded me; or, just as usefully, they might be able to demonstrate I'm speaking nonsense.
- pjc50 10y agoGoogle delivers: "roughly 10,000 [black people] in London" in the late C18th. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CCd8AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=eighteenth+century+Covent+Garden+in+London+had+a+significant+black+population&source=bl&ots=zmkjgk-phz&sig=oJXIreIiKoAOn1dzRLSjuQGdVsM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjtqPWqx9fOAhVEGsAKHVLGC1YQ6AEIPDAF#v=onepage&q=eighteenth%20century%20Covent%20Garden%20in%20London%20had%20a%20significant%20black%20population&f=false https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CCd8AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA8&lpg=...
- acjohnson55 10y agoThat's presuming these folks remained a distinct population, rather than assimilating. http://afroeurope.blogspot.com/2010/08/history-of-black-people-in-europe.html http://afroeurope.blogspot.com/2010/08/history-of-black-peop...