Black Tudors: The Untold Story (Hardcover)

from Christiana5

I received this book as part of the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. While I am well versed in the Tudor era, this subject matter was entirely new to me. Kaufmann presents information in 10 chapters, each "featuring" an African man or woman's story, but given the scarcity of the details, als...

from wagner.sarah35

*I received this book through LibraryThing Early Reviewers.* I had never really given much thought to Africans living in Tudor England, but I'm glad this book introduced me to a few of their incredibly varied lives. In addition to highlighting less prominent historical figures, this book teases o...

from dhelmen

A fascinating book about a topic I knew nothing about. Kaufmann mined sparse historical information to give voice to a history that is virtually unknown. I highly recommend this book to people interested in learning more about race in Tudor England and about tudor England in general as there is m...

from DavidWineberg

Once upon a time, before there was racism... Well beyond being a nation of shopkeepers, the British are a nation of event recorders. There are registers, court records and all kinds of documents official and informal that detail the lives of Britons going back a thousand years. So it should be no...

from irregularreader

It is said that history is written by the winners. While that is certainly true, the more insidious fact is that history is written by those who hold the pen. What this means in a practical sense is that those with little power, and little influence-whether or not they "won"-are often either dimi...