Thursday, March 22, 2018

The black Tudors of England: African porter who whipped a white servant is among 350 stories revealing how early immigrants were treated as equals in the Elizabethan era

  • Case of Edward Swarthye saw him whip fellow white slave on orders of employer
  • He appeared at court to confirm that he whipped John Guy on employer's orders
  • His story suggests that early black immigrants were treated as equals by Tudors
  • Jaques Francis's tale saw him help salvage the wrecked Mary Rose warship 
  • His employer went on trial and Francis was invited to give evidence in a court 
  • This came despite other witnesses claiming he could not because he was a slave

Edward Swarthye's story suggests black immigrants in England were seen as equals. Pictured: Portrait of an African man, circa 1530
Edward Swarthye's story suggests black immigrants in England were seen as equals. Pictured: Portrait of an African man, circa 1530
The case of a black servant whipping a white one forms part of a growing body of evidence that Africans were treated equally in Tudor England.
Edward Swarthye's dealings with the Elizabethan court is one of 350 examples of black people whose stories have been compiled in the book, Black Tudors.
The book is the first detailed study of early black immigrants and explores Swarthye's coming to England on a ship under the command of Sir Francis Drake
According to Miranda Kaufmann, senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, Swarthye had a higher rank than that of fellow servant, John Guy, who would go onto become mayor of Bristol and a colonial governor of Newfoundland. 
'The whipping is a shock today because when we think of whipping we usually think of a white man whipping a black man,' Dr Kaufmann told the Oxford Literary Festival. 
'It utterly inverts everything we thought we knew about the Tudors.'
Black Tudors explores how Swarthye became a porter of Edward Wynter, a knight who joined Drake on a voyage to the Caribbean.
 
NWN: Where do they get this rubbish from ? Or, why do they deliberately tell lies ?

There is also a huge error here too. Queen Elizabeth I  actually made a law to expel " ye blackamoores" . That law is still extant . So in actual fact all those whom the corrupt polticians have allowed onto these shores are here illegally.
 
 "In 1601, among the Cecil papers still held at Hatfield House, we hear this: "The queen is discontented at the great numbers of 'negars and blackamoores' which are crept into the realm since the troubles between her Highness and the King of Spain, and are fostered here to the annoyance of her own people."
 
Tis a shame we haven't got an absolute monarch of the calibre of 'Good Queene Bess' on the throne, as no doubt she would have sorted all the nations major problems out . Hangings galore would have occurred.

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