{"id":16955,"date":"2011-10-10T02:06:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T02:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16955"},"modified":"2011-10-10T02:11:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T02:11:47","slug":"medieval-black-briton-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16955","title":{"rendered":"Medieval black Briton found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/article7113909.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Medieval black Briton found<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Times of London<\/a><br \/>\n2010-05-02<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gillian Passmore<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A SKELETON uncovered in the ruins of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monastery\" target=\"_blank\">friary<\/a> is the earliest physical evidence of a black person living in Britain in medieval times.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe remains of a man, found in the friary in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ipswich\" target=\"_blank\">Ipswich, Suffolk<\/a>, which was destroyed by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_VIII_of_England\" target=\"_blank\">Henry VIII<\/a>, have been dated to the 13th century.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIt is the first solid indication that there were black people in Britain in the 1,000-year period between the departure of the Romans, who had African slaves, and the beginnings of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Age_of_Discovery\" target=\"_blank\">age of discovery<\/a> in the 15th century&#8230;<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8230;He predates by 150 years the three black people previously known to have lived in Britain. They were identified from tax records&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/article7113909.ece\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medieval black Briton found The Times of London 2010-05-02 Gillian Passmore A SKELETON uncovered in the ruins of a friary is the earliest physical evidence of a black person living in Britain in medieval times. \u00a0 The remains of a man, found in the friary in Ipswich, Suffolk, which was destroyed by Henry VIII, have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,459,8,10],"tags":[7768,7770,7771,7769],"class_list":["post-16955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-history","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-gillian-passmore","tag-ipswich","tag-suffolk","tag-the-times-of-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}