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‘That rare thing: a book about the 16th century that said something new.’ ― Evening Standard, Books of the Year

‘Splendid…that rare thing – a work of history about the Tudors that actually says something fresh and new…a cracking contribution to the field.’ ― Dan Jones, Sunday Times

‘Enlightening and constantly surprising… Far too many popular studies of the Tudors return the same faces. To its great credit, Black Tudors presents fresh figures and challenges the way we look at them.’ ― Jessie Childs, Financial Times

‘Consistently fascinating, historically invaluable…the narrative is pacy, the research sympathetically thorough.. Anyone reading it will never look at Tudor England in the same light again'. ― Daily Mail

‘[The] audience will find itself in the hands of a historian of excellent investigative skills, who shows attention to detail, uses evidence with appropriate caution, and has the sensibility of a scholar.’ ― Times Literary Supplement

‘The industry and skill with which Miranda Kaufmann has hunted for these sources and teased out their meanings are exemplary… Kaufmann’s greatest skill is her ability to fill in the background on every topic that arises, from piracy to silk-weaving to brothels to Anglo-Moroccan diplomacy…In the hands of a lesser writer this would be mere padding with secondary material, but she investigates every subject in the same depth… a fascinating book, which brings a sadly neglected part of our history to life, and grinds no ideological axes in the process’. ― Daily Telegraph

‘Both an eye-opener and a good read.’ ― Sorted

‘Miranda Kaufmann writes engagingly as she reveals the untold stories of Africans who lived free, worked for wages, married and died in 16th and 17th century England.’ ― CHOICE

‘Fascinating.’ ― Sunday Telegraph

‘Meticulous research draws on sources from letters to legal papers…The detail [Kaufmann] unearths brings to life those absent from the pages of history.’ ― Observer

About the Author

Miranda Kaufmann is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of London’s Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Her first book, Black Tudors, was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018. She has appeared on Sky News, the BBC and Al Jazeera, and she’s written for The Times, Guardian and BBC History Magazine. She lives in Pontblyddyn in North Wales.

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Publisher : Oneworld Publications; Reprint edition (November 13, 2018)
Language: : English
Paperback : 384 pages
ISBN-10 : 178607396X
ISBN-13 : 978-1786073969
Item Weight : 12.8 ounces
Dimensions : 5.1 x 0.7 x 7.8 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #71,552 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #155 in Historical British Biographies
- #189 in Ethnic Demographic Studies
- #299 in Great Britain History (Books)

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S. Bryan

This is a MUST for a History Buff!!

Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2017

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This is the first time I have real actual information pertaining to Blacks in England during the Tudor dynasty. I think anyone would benefit from this book, I just purchased it in Kindle form and I will now pick it up as a hardcover as well. I highly encourge reenactors to pick up this book as she explains what colors and fabrics that were around.

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unexplored history

Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2020

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if one watches historical pics, the tudors, elizabeth 1 it is easy to get the impression blacks born in europe or africa were only slaves. this discusses the lives of those many who were free workers as musicians, sailors, officials, businesswomen etc. i wasn't aware that in the time of england's henry 8 is was high fashion to have african looking musicians in your court orchestra. some were from africa, others moslems from morocco etc. the man she discusses appears in a portrait and his petition asking for a raise and promotion is shown. slaves in the new world are q
uoted as wishing they could get to england where there is no slavery and 1 made it and sailed with sir francis drake. a master who wanted his slave to work was told by a court he can't be forced to stay and serve. a woman dies and leaves an estate including the cow. it is history not taught in school and was written so well that i couldn't stop reading it. it also includes color repros of art showing africans including the musician. would make an excellent gift and there is a bibliography for those who want to read more.

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Bamcruzz1

The more you know!

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2020

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I am a 72 year old African
American, so much I learned from reading this kindle book that wasn't taught in school; what a revelation!

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Melinda

Gives a more accurate picture of Tudor England and also the rest of the world.

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2018

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Excellent book, very readable and well documented. Kaufmann gives a good overview of Tudor period history as well as specific examples of the integration of black immigrants into English life (and life in other countries). She shows how our current concept of race shapes our perception of historic relationships.

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Mozette

Royalty Didn’t End In Africa

Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2019

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Quite an eye opener and thought provoking book.

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blue.ribbon

Informative, interesting and well-written

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2020

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Informative, interesting history of an under reported segment of the population of Tudor England.

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Gail

... a book that my brother wanted and seems very pleased

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2017

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This is a book that my brother wanted and seems very pleased

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Donise

A great effort to inform about the lives of every day people in Tudor times

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2017

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This book is well written and very interesting. It contains a lot of information on the Tudor time period. Unfortunately, she tries her best to give you information on the Black Tudors but apparently there is scant information. The most important point she makes is that in the 16th century, the prejudice against blacks had not begun in England.

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Theo1

Disappointing on the topic being written about.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 28, 2018

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The book was extremely disappointing on historical detail about black Tudors though the book purports to be about that very topic. It is largely padded out with historical detail about other people and events - largely the sort of stuff we get on those 'light' historical programmes on TV. I learned very little from it and was surprised that the reviews printed on the cover and inside the book - praised the detailed research of the writer. There was far too much surmise and imagining of events that 'might have' taken place.

42 people found this helpful

Mac McAleer

An excellent recovery of a forgotten history

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 9, 2018

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This is an excellent book. It recovers the lost history of Africans in England during the reigns of Henry VIII through Elizabeth I and James I (who was a Stuart not a Tudor). These Africans had the same freedoms and constraints as everyone else in the kingdom, dependant not on their colour but on their skills, position in society and wealth. Some may have been servants, but they were never slaves. It was only later when the English became seriously involved in the African transatlantic slave trade that the perception of Africans changed, but English law never recognised slavery in England.

The author, Miranda Kaufmann, has split the book in ten chapters. Each chapter concentrates on an historical figure and gives the known facts about them and the environment in which they lived. Sometimes the known facts are few; sometimes much more is known. Thus, the discussions are often as much about the Tudor world as about the black Tudors themselves.

The book’s genesis is in the author’s research for a doctorate, but it never feels academic. However, it does have an extensive bibliography and notes on the text. There are several colour plates.

The first character is John Blanke, who was a trumpet player in the court of Henry VIII. He is found in the royal accounts for the various payments to him. His image can also be seen in the Westminster Tournament Roll where he is painted with his fellow trumpeters, the only one with a dark skin and wearing a turban. This image is reproduced in the book. Next is Jacques Francis of Southampton, but with Venetian connections. He was a salvage diver employed to recover valuables from the wreck of the recently sunk Mary Rose. The third chapter concerns Diego, a slave of the Spanish in Panama, who escaped and sailed with Sir Francis Drake. On future voyages, Drake brought more Africans to England, including Edward Swarthye, who later became a porter in Gloucestershire and is the subject of chapter 4. Then there was Reasonable Blackman, a silk weaver in London, followed by Mary Fillis from Morocco, who was a seamstress in London. Chapter 7 concerns Dederi Jaquoah, the son of an African king, who lived in London for two years as a guest of a merchant trading with West Africa. John Anthony was a former pirate living in Dover. Anne Cobbie was a prostitute in London. The final chapter discusses Cattelena of Almondsbury who owned a cow, which provided her livelihood.

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Andrew Fontenelle

Black Tudors

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 28, 2017

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"Black Tudors: The Untold Story" by Miranda Kaufmann does an excellent job of highlighting the African presence in Britain during Tudor times. With a few exceptions, we know little about their lives since just their names and ethnicity is all that has been recorded about them. But the fact that they were present in numbers large enough to be noticed, means that British history needs to be viewed in a different light.

I was lucky enough to attend a presentation by Onyekaa at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2015 on the Black Tudor presence. And having read his book (Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, Their Presence, Status, and Origins) on which his presentation was partly based, this book complements it nicely.

Based on the content, the author has obviously done a significant amount research and I would certainly recommend reading it.

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Nomester

the wonderfully named Reasonable Blackman

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2018

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As Miranda Kaufman’s meticulously researched book makes clear, black people had a presence in Britain long before the 18th century. It is a history that has been largely overlooked. She found over 360 individuals of African origin living in England and Scotland in the years between 1500 and 1640 and uses the stories of some of them to expand on the world they lived in, using themes of navigation and piracy, colonisation, the slave trade, social hierarchy to paint a picture of Tudor life.

Piecing together the lives of ten Tudors of African origin she brings us some truly untold lives: including the diver Jacques Francis, who was employed to salvage cargo on the Mary Rose; John Blanke, a trumpeter at Henry VIII’s coronation; the wonderfully named Reasonable Blackman, a silk weaver; Mary Fillis, possibly a basket-weaver; and Anne Cobbie, a prostitute in London; Dederi Jaquoah, the son of an African king, who was a guest of a London merchant for two years; John Anthony, a former pirate living in Dover. Most lived in the city, but a few are found in the countryside: Cattelena lived in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire where she sold milk from her cow, Edward Swarthye was a porter to a nobleman.

The book's genesis was as an academic dissertation but it never reads like one. The style is interesting and accessible. Great colour plates. Recommended.

11 people found this helpful

Joanna Hickson

An eye-opener of a book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2019

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This book is an eye-opener! Kaufmann shows that there were Africans living in English towns and villages from early Tudor times who were treated without prejudice or any more suspicion than many white people who had the misfortune to favour the wrong Christian church or be suspected of the wrong sexual orientation. Nor were they enslaved, as happened in many other European countries. The English slave trade did not get underway until the second half of the sixteenth century. Merchant voyages to Africa were undertaken with a view to trading in goods like spices and (unfortunately) ivory, but not people. The characters chosen as examples of African immigration to England vary from a male underwater swimmer to a female seamstress and they were all paid for their work or able to go into business themselves. Read it and be surprised!

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