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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 North African emigre who converted to Christianity it was NBD for your daughter to marry him.[/quote]

This is a very political topic and controversial among historians. Some progressive people want to promote a much more "diverse" history for Britain because of today's more diverse population. But frankly, no matter how you spin it, the numbers of non-whites in Britain were always so incredibly small. They did exist in the few instances you referred to, but the entirety of British written legacy makes it extremely clear it was a 99.99% white country outside of a few ex slaves or traders, or in the 19th century, students from the colonies. The 1940 census showed less than 40,000 non whites out of 40 million people, just to give you an idea of how rare non whites were throughout British history till the 1950s immigration from Jamaica. A few traders in Tudor London does not make for a diverse population. 
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