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Who Were The Black Tudors?
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Miranda Kaufmann attempts to answer the intriguing question 'Who Were The Black Tudors?'
Dr Kaufmann tells the intriguing tales of three Africans living in Tudor England – Jacques Francis, a diver employed by Henry VIII to recover guns from the wreck of the Mary Rose; Mary Fillis, a Moroccan woman baptized in Elizabethan London; and Edward Swarthye, a porter who whipped a fellow servant at their master's Gloucestershire manor house. Their stories illuminate key issues: – how did they come to England? What were their lives like? How were they treated by the church and the law? Most importantly: were they free?
Watch the full lecture at https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/black-tudors
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