Episode 068: Black Tudors

Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors

Heather Teysko

History

4.6 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

It's Black History Month in North America, and in honor of that, I am going out of the planned narrative of war with France, and doing this episode on the black Tudor experience. There have been black people in England since Roman times, and records show them in England throughout the middle ages. During the Age of Exploration, though, the population in London and England grew, so much so that Elizabeth I thought she might have to do something about it. She was unsuccessful, though. Interestingly, the slave trade didn't really take off in England until the mid 17th century, and under English law it was impossible to be a slave in Tudor England, so the experience of black Tudors is unique compared to those in Spain and Portugal during this time. In fact, the story is largely how similar to white Tudors their experience was. By that, I mean that their experience ran the spectrum from being poor servants to having important roles at court, and everything in the middle. You'd never know it based on the pop culture interpretations of Tudor England, though. So join me in this episode to learn about several black Tudors including a black soldier who was made a knight after defeating the Scots. If you like this show, please leave me a rating on iTunes. It's the number one thing you can do to help shows succeed. Show notes and more information at englandcast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast.
0:13.0	I'm your host, Heather Tusco, and I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible because I believe it's a pathway to understanding who we are,
0:22.1	our place in the universe, and being in touch with our own humanity.
0:27.0	This is episode 68, and I'm doing something that I know many of you hate it when I do.
0:33.7	I read the iTunes review.
0:35.9	I know you guys hate this.
0:40.2	I'm sorry. I try not to do it very often,
0:45.3	especially since I saw that iTunes review like two years ago. I'm going out of order.
0:50.9	I'm doing something that's a show that I said two weeks ago. I was going to do something different. And I'm switching it up. And I'm sorry. I had been planning
0:55.7	on doing the second of the French Wars episode this week, but it's Black History Month in North
1:01.6	America. And I got distracted learning about Black Tudors. And I wanted to do an episode devoted to
1:08.6	the Black experience in Tudor England, because it's really interesting,
1:13.3	and it's really not something that we talk about that often, and I think it should be talked
1:17.9	about. So I apologize for going out of order. I hope you will forgive me. Next week, we will
1:27.1	be back to war with France. I promise.
1:30.5	But before I get started, just a few reminders. First, please check out the Agora podcast network,
1:36.7	of which this podcast is a proud member. When the Renaissance English History podcast was the
1:43.3	podcast of the month back over the summer,
1:47.1	I actually did a really cool question and answer session with them called The Exchange,
1:52.6	and you can actually listen to it on their website, agorapodcastnetwork.com.
1:58.7	I'll also put a link up on the show notes. And speaking of show notes,
2:04.0	you can get show notes for each episode. This week's are pretty extensive, along with the book
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