So I’ve just rewatched @Channel4 Britain’s Most #HistoricTowns with @theAliceRoberts and I’m rather disappointed that the information that, as I wrote in #BlackTudors, there were free Africans living in Elizabethan Plymouth and sailing with #Drake was not conveyed.
In this clip @theAliceRoberts states that the Africans aboard #Drake’s circumnavigation voyage were enslaved. While Maria’s fate (related here) was horrific, we also need to know about #Diego...
#Diego, who lived in Plymouth c.1573-1577, had escaped Spanish enslavement when he joined #Drake in 1572; brokered an alliance with the Panama Maroons; sailed free with Drake round the world. Missed chance when #HistoricTowns showed the Drake Jewel,symbolises the alliance.
And although @theAliceRoberts visited St. Andrews church in #Plymouth we never hear of the 14 Africans who were baptised or buried there during the Elizabethan period. Just a fraction of over 200 #BlackTudors living in #TudorEngland.
For more on #Diego, #Maria, #Drake and #BlackTudors... https://twitter.com/mirandakaufmann/status/1332769979893227520
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