England’s Other Countrymen: Black Tudor Society (Blackness in Britain) Paperback – February 9, 2023

England's Other Countrymen is a thought-provoking book that will make readers reexamine what they know about Tudor England. Professor Nubia provides a lot of evidence that there were black people in England working shoulder to shoulder with their white neighbors. I was intrigued by the stories related and I honestly want to know more about these people. It's so hard to wrap our minds around the time before American slavery took hold. I really enjoyed this book and encourage anyone who is interested in Tudor history to read this book.

A pleasure to read. Brilliant and clear reasoning to debunk the post-colonial praxis our modern world applies to pre-colonial history.

I was really curious about this book, especially as I love Tudor history. I was hoping for a new prospective, instead I got a badly written propaganda piece. The book is trying to re-write history. A missed opportunity.

Traditional British history is being enriched by accounts of the lives of those who hitherto have been invisible. Kaufmann's 'Black Tudors', for example, presents six Africans who lived in sixteenth century England. As Onyeka Nubia points out in this well-researched account of other African lives in the same period a question which needs to be asked is were they subject to anti-Africa antipathy which automatically made them into 'others' or strangers? His answer is a nuanced 'no'. They were more than strangers, rather neighbours who lived in rather than merely being present in their neighbourhoods. His book makes an important contribution in a field of relevance to the twenty first century.

Great book exposing the removal of African influence in Britain