The "Ethiope," the "tawny Tartar," the "woman blackamoore," and "knotty Africanisms"—allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance texts. Kim F. Hall's eagerly

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A new, transformative history – in Tudor times there were Black people living and working in Britain, and they were free ‘This is history on the cutting edg