A YouGov survey has found that 75% of British adults acknowledged that they did not know 'very much' or 'anything at all' about pertinent figures through black British history.
Here are some of the most influential figures throughout black British historyA YouGov survey has revealed than 50% of Brits know so little about black British history that they cannot name a single historical figure.
He was named after the famous poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge who interesingly inspired the composer throughout his distinguished career. Indeed, his composition 'Hiwata's Wedding Piece' was so popular that, in 1904, he was invited by the then-US President Theodore Roosevelt to visit the White House. A native of Numidia , and former governor of Lower Germany, Urbicus campaigned against several British tribes from various parts of Scotland.
She was said to be so interested in medicine and healing that, as a child, she would apply bandages to dolls and pets. Olaudah Equiano Oluadah Equiano was instrumental in the campaign for the abolition of the slave trade. His autobiography, The Interesting Narrative Of The Life Of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, The African, was a bestseller between 1789 and 1794 and brought home to the British public the realities of the Atlantic slave trade
For example, when in Virginia, Equiano was sold to Royal Navy officer, Lieutenant Michael Pascal, who renamed him 'Gustavus Vassa' after the 16th-century Swedish king. A highly influential figure in the arts, Ignatius Sancho was born on a slave ship and brought to England by his owner as an orphan, where he worked as a butler.
Sir Learie Constantine Representing both Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago in first-class cricket, Constantine played 18 Test matches for the West Indies between 1928 and 1939 Writing of his experiences in Nelson, he said: 'If I had not come ... I could not have been the person I am today ... I am a better citizen for the time I have spent in Nelson'.
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