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Many happy returns of the day. X

You may be right about the dates, but I knew about the African men arriving in free city’s in the UK, because one was my great, great, etc granddad...the family story is he escaped at Liverpool, made Glasgow and had a fine life with his Scottish wife, so I was told by my nan.

Before that, if my history serves well, in the 1700s there was a rule of free city’s in England and Scotland, the city’s were London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh and Glasgow, some others as well, if a black man made it to these city’s he was free, and there were many cases of black men...

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The main problem is opportunity, is it population, location, right place, right time, I don’t know, even if every black man in the UK were married to white women, pop wise it would only be 10%...but from a personal point of view, I would.