Black Tudors: The Untold Story
by Miranda Kaufmann /
2017 / English / EPUB
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"Highly readable yet intensively researched... lively prose and
fascinating microhistories, [BLACK TUDORS] should draw some
well-deserved attention."
"Highly readable yet intensively researched... lively prose and
fascinating microhistories, [BLACK TUDORS] should draw some
well-deserved attention."-- Publishers Weekly
-- Publishers Weekly, Starred
Review
, Starred
Review
"A highly instructive history of an understudied part of Tudor
society. An eminently readable book that offers contemporary
readers valuable insights into racial relations of centuries past.”
"A highly instructive history of an understudied part of Tudor
society. An eminently readable book that offers contemporary
readers valuable insights into racial relations of centuries past.”-- Kirkus Reviews
-- Kirkus Reviews
"For a modern audience acculturated to thinking of Africans in the
West as either enslaved or altogether absent, the picture that
emerges challenges the centrality of whiteness and slavery in the
Tudor period."
"For a modern audience acculturated to thinking of Africans in the
West as either enslaved or altogether absent, the picture that
emerges challenges the centrality of whiteness and slavery in the
Tudor period."-- Foreword Reviews
-- Foreword Reviews
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.
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 ground-breaking, seminal work, Black
Tudors challenges the accepted narrative that racial slavery was
all but inevitable and forces us to re-examine the seventeenth
century to determine what caused perceptions to change so
radically.
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 ground-breaking, seminal work, Black
Tudors challenges the accepted narrative that racial slavery was
all but inevitable and forces us to re-examine the seventeenth
century to determine what caused perceptions to change so
radically.