Black Tudors: The Untold Story
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Black Tudors: The Untold Story at FutureLearn Overview
Duration | 6 weeks |
Total fee | ₹6,500 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
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Black Tudors: The Untold Story at FutureLearn Highlights
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
Black Tudors: The Untold Story at FutureLearn Course details
- This course will take you on a vivid tour through the fascinating lives of Africans living in Tudor and early Stuart England.
- Alongside Dr. Kaufmann, you WIll learn how to analyse historical documents and investigate archives, as you examine this often forgotten but vitally important period of Black history.
- On this course, you will discover the real lives of ten historical figures who lived in England in the 16th and early 17th century and delve into the stories of many others.
- By studying how Africans freely lived, worked, married, and died in English society before colonialism and enslavement, you will challenge common preconceptions about Black history, and discover what it was really like to live as a Black person in England at the time.
- You will investigate archival material and develop your ability to evaluate and critique historical sources and artefacts. You will construct arguments that interrogate the past and uncover the eras narrative themes.
- You will examine important and topical debates around Black history, and delve into social and political issues around Black identity that in the wake of Black Lives Matters have never been more relevant.
Black Tudors: The Untold Story at FutureLearn Curriculum
How Africans came to Tudor England from Europe
Introduction
The Story of John Blanke
How John Blanke Came to Tudor England
Was John Blanke a Free Wage Earner?
Review and Reflect on Week 1
The Free Soil of England?
Introduction to Week 2
The Story of Jacques Francis the Salvage Diver
The Story of Reasonable Blackman the Silk Weaver
Free Black Tudors in the Christian Community
Review and Reflect on Week 2
The Tudor World: Black Tudors and Trade with Africa
Introduction to Week 3
The Story of Dederi Jaquoah, The Prince of River Cestos
John Hawkins and Early English Trafficking in Enslaved Africans
Francis Drake and John Hawkins
Review and Reflect on Week 3
Black Tudors from the Spanish Americas
Introduction to Week 4
The Story of Diego, The Circumnavigator
The Story of Edward Swarthye, The Porter
Review and Reflect on Week 4
Black Tudor Women: Gender, Sex, Religion and Marriage
Welcome to Week 5
The Story of Mary Fillis, the Moroccan Convert
The Story of Anne Cobbie 'The Tawney Moor with Soft Skin'
The Story of Cattelena, Independent Singlewoman
Review and Reflect on Week 5
Black Tudor Debates
Introduction to Week 6
Black Tudors in Literature and Fiction
The Story of John Anthony, Mariner of Dover
What Changed in the 17th Century?
Review and Reflect on Week 6
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