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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the whole debate about black people in old English stuff…. I just listened to a totally interesting pod cast talking about how with modern dna and isotope studies they are finding that historic England was much more diverse than they realized.  There is a ship they excavated that sank with Henry viii’s most trusted and high ranking military guard, the Merry Rose.  Of the 8 people that they’ve analyzed, 2 have African ancestry.  One appeared to be a deck boy based on age and where they found him, but the other was a. Archer, which was a high status job—found him with the archers band still on his skeletal arm and his quiver next to him.  There was another historian that did extensive work on Tudor baptismal records and found people of African ancestry through Britain.  They traced one down the ancestral line and found all his white great great (x whatever) children living in this little British town with no idea that they had African ancestry 4 centuries ago.  It was really interesting.  They made the point that back then race was not as big a deal — religion was the main demarcater so if you had a [b]North African[/b] emigre who converted to Christianity it was NBD for your daughter to marry him.[/quote]

Everything you described sounds very plausible, except for the eliding of North Africans and sub-Saharan Africans. North Africa is itself a diverse place, but its people are part of the Mediterranean world in every sense. They are generally not "Black." Not that there's anything wrong with that, and it is in fact documented that there were Black people in Early Modern England (though the argument that Queen Charlotte is one of them rests on a single Medieval North African ancestor that I think might even be more mythical than documented).[/quote]

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