Left wingers and blacks say there were thousands of black Roman soldiers in England so were there any blacks in Saxon & Norman periods until the Wars

of the Roses? There was a black visitor to the court of Henry VIII called John Dark that left wingers always bring up to somehow prove Anglo Saxon England was full of blacks.

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WanderingSavage · M

Yes there were, but they didn’t stay or settle the colonias at York or Lincoln etc. Unless you lived in a port, Africans were so rare in Britian that people where either afraid of them or amazed until the 1600s.