KS3 The First Black British People History Lesson - Black Tudors - Black Romans - John Blanke

This lesson teaches students about the first black British people before the slave trade changed views of race.

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These people are:
Emperor Septimius Severus and the Black African Soldiers
The 33% African Updown Girl and the 100% African Anglo-Saxon Slave
The Legendary Morien, a member of Arthur’s Round Table
John Blanke, Henry VIII’s trumpeter
The Africans of James IV’s Scottish court
Reasonable Blackman the silk merchant

It also discusses the probability that there were many more, and why we simply don’t know much about them - namely, they were a normal and accepted part of the times they lived in.

It also introduces the slave trade, which began in the lifetime of Reasonable Blackman.

Please see my profile for more lessons on lesser-remembered topics of history, like the black Samurai Yasuke and Elizabeth I’s relationship with the Muslim World