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Black British or Black English was also a term for those Black and mixed-race people in Sierra Leone (known as the Creoles or the Krio(s)) who were descendants of migrants from England and Canada and identified as British.
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- The Ivory Bangle Lady. University of Reading. Research from the University of Reading in 2010 showed a British-Roman woman in York, whose remains were found in 1901, had African ancestry.
- Henry VIII's black trumpeter. John Blanke can be seen on a roll from the 1500s at the National Archives. During the Tudor period there were hundreds of black migrants living in England.
- Britain's first black Queen? Royal Collection Trust. Portrait of Queen Charlotte by Johan Joseph Zoffany. She was a princess from Germany who became a British Queen after marrying King George III - and many historians believe Queen Charlotte had African ancestry.
- 'Hidden in plain sight' Many streets in Glasgow city centre are named after slave-owning plantation owners. Queen Charlotte, whether she had African ancestry or not, joined the Royal Family in the century when Britain started slave-trading - which made it vastly wealthy.
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- The Ivory Bangle Lady. Image source, University of Reading. Research from the University of Reading in 2010 showed a British-Roman woman in York, whose remains were found in 1901, had African ancestry.
- Henry VIII's black trumpeter. Image caption, John Blanke can be seen on a roll from the 1500s at the National Archives. During the Tudor period there were hundreds of black migrants living in England.
- Britain's first black Queen? Image source, Royal Collection Trust. Portrait of Queen Charlotte by Johan Joseph Zoffany. She was a princess from Germany who became a British Queen after marrying King George III - and many historians believe Queen Charlotte had African ancestry.
- 'Hidden in plain sight' Media caption, Many streets in Glasgow city centre are named after slave-owning plantation owners. Queen Charlotte, whether she had African ancestry or not, joined the Royal Family in the century when Britain started slave-trading - which made it vastly wealthy.
Black British people are a multi-ethnic group of British people of either African or Afro-Caribbean descent. The term Black British developed in the 1950s, referring to the Black British West Indian people from the former Caribbean British colonies in the West Indies sometimes referred to as the Windrush Generation and Black British people ...
They are British people whose recent ancestors originate from the Caribbean, and further trace their ancestry back to Africa or they are nationals of the Caribbean who reside in the UK. There are some self-identified Afro-Caribbean people who are multi-racial.
