African migrants

• Why did African migrants come?

  • some came as refugees brought by white people
• STATS that African migrants had already been in England fro a while

  • There since the Roman times
  • by 16-17th century, they were in the Royal court
  • worked for important people; like Catherine of Aragon
  • Worked in households; by law, they were not slaves
  • Parish registers showed baptism and burials of Black Africans
• Experience for black people was mainly...

  good
• Why black people's experience good

  • apart of English society
  • children worked in rich people's houses, because it became fashionable in the late 1600s
• Prosperous Black Individuals

  • Edward Swarthye; porter In the 1590s
  • Reasonable Blackman; silk weaver in the 1580s-1590s
  • John Blanke; trumpeter for Henry VIII
• Negatives of Black experience

  • Some ran away
  • Still racism, evidence in the names that they were given