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William Cuffay
Short Bio: William Cuffay was a tailor and an important and influential leader of the Chartist movement. In 1848 he was transported to Tasmania (Australia) after being convicted of "conspiring to levy war" against Queen Victoria. Although later pardoned, he never returned to the UK. He continued to fight for the political rights of the working classes in Tasmania until his death in 1870.
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Mary Seacole
Short Bio: Mary Seacole was a nurse who grew up in Jamaica in the nineteenth century. She was a nurse and helped soldiers in the Crimean war by giving them a clean and hygienic place to stay and a good diet so they could recover from their injuries and travel back to England. She wrote a book about her experiences and helped to transform how nurses cared for their patients.
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John Blanke
Short Bio: He was employed to play the trumpet for King Henry 7th and King Henry 8th. He played at public events, where the kings would be present. He was one of a group of trumpeters, shown in a painting playing the trumpet and riding a horse at the same time. He is the most famous black man in Tudor England.
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Ivory Bangle Lady
Short Bio: The Ivory Bangle Lady lived in Roman Britain during the fourth century AD. Some members of her family came from North Africa. She grew up in either western Britain or in Europe. She moved to York, where she died between the ages of 18 and 23. The things buried with her show she was a rich woman, who may have been connected with the Roman army or with traders. We don't know much about her life, but we can make some sensible guesses based on what she was buried with and what we know about Roman York when she lived there.
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Henrie Anthonie Jetto
Short Bio: Henry Antonie Jetto was an African living in Worcestershire, England in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Very few records survive from this period but we have Jetto's baptism record from 3 March 1596. This shows us that he was 26 years old when he was baptised. Jetto is recorded in 1607 to be working as a gardener for Sir Henry Bromley of Holt Castle. Before dying Henrie Antonie Jetto wrote and signed his own will on 20 September 1626. This is one of very few documents written by an African at this time and is one of the first wills written by an African.
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Dido Elizabeth Belle
Short Bio: Dido Elizabeth Belle was born to an English Captain in the Royal Navy and an African enslaved woman outside of marriage. Dido was raised by her great-uncle. Dido received an education, allowance, was brought up as a lady and was in charge of the dairy and poultry yard of the house. Find out more below!
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Claudia Jones
Short Bio: Simply a tireless and dynamic civil rights activist!
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Andrew Watson
Short Bio: Andrew Watson was born in Guyana and came to Britain as a child. He was the world's first player to captain a national football team when he captained the Scottish national football team in 1881 England lost that game 6-1, which is still England's heaviest defeat on home soil He was also the world's first Black football administrator, as he was club secretary at Parkgrove and the Queen's Park football clubs in Glasgow in the 1870s and 1880s respectively
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