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Timeline of The Slave Trade and Abolition. 1555: A group of Africans (from present day Ghana) are brought to England by John Lok, a London merchant, to learn English so that they can act as interpreters in their homelands.
5 Οκτ 2022 · 1914–18. Tens of thousands of men from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as Britain’s black communities, join the war effort. Among them is professional footballer Walter Tull, the first British-born black army officer and the first black officer to lead white British troops into battle.
Some might think the first black people in Britain arrived from Britain's colonies - the countries in Africa, the Caribbean and Asia that Britain ruled over, in some cases for centuries - after...
1623 – Britain establishes its first colony on the island of St Kitts, signalling the beginning of British dominance in the Caribbean. 1672 – The Royal African Company is established in England to manage Britain's ever-increasing involvement in the Atlantic slave trade.
10 Οκτ 2022 · In honour of Black History Month, we have compiled a timeline of important firsts achieved by people of African and Caribbean heritage in the UK.
3 Νοε 2016 · People of African origin have been part of English history since Roman times. By the latter half of the 18th century, England had a Black population of around 15,000 people. Read what we know of their lives from evidence in the historic environment.
Black histories are a vital part of England’s story, reaching back many centuries. There is evidence of African people in Roman Britain as far back as the 3rd century AD, and black communities have been present since at least 1500.
