{"id":63780,"date":"2022-05-12T19:38:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T19:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63780"},"modified":"2022-05-13T15:21:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:21:48","slug":"the-untold-story-of-britains-first-black-school-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63780","title":{"rendered":"The untold story of Britain’s first black school teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"

The untold story of Britain’s first black school teacher<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

BBC News<\/a>
\n2022-04-28<\/p>\n

Giancarlo Rinaldi<\/strong><\/a>, South Scotland Reporter
\nBBC Scotland News Website<\/em><\/p>\n

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A small plaque commemorates the role Tom Jenkins<\/a> played in education in the Borders<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A small plaque marks the spot where the man believed to be Britain’s<\/a> first black school teacher educated children in a Scottish village.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now the story of Tom Jenkins<\/a>‘ life is being explored as part of the area’s Alchemy Festival<\/a>, and there are calls for him to receive greater recognition.<\/p>\n

Jenkins educated dozens of children between 1814 and 1818 at Teviothead<\/a>, near Hawick<\/a>, in the Scottish Borders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Artist Dr Jade Montserrat<\/a> has been investigating the links between Hawick and both Jenkins and anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass<\/a>, who visited the town in 1846.<\/p>\n

“I focused in on the significant black presence in Hawick and, more loosely, Hawick’s liberal abolitionist identity as a town,” she said…<\/p>\n

…When he was six years old his father, a slave trading chief, handed him to Capt James Swanson.<\/p>\n

The son of a waiter from Hawick, Capt Swanson was in command of the slave ship Prudence.<\/p>\n

The intention was that Tom Jenkins would be educated in Britain before returning to West Africa<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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