Exclusive: majority of British people found to have ‘shockingly little’ knowledge about Black British history
The composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor.More than half of Britons know so little about Black British history that they cannot name a single historical figure, a survey has revealed.
Most people also underestimated the scale of Britain’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. More than half did not know how many people were taken from Africa by the British. Around half believed the number was 250,000 or fewer and only 12% of Britons thought that more than 1 million people were taken, “despite the true figure being more than three times that amount”, the report found.
She would have expected people to name figures such as Quintus Lollius Urbicus, who became governor of Roman Britain; the formerly enslaved Olaudah Equiano, who became an abolitionist and writer; Mary Seacole, who provided sustenance and care for British soldiers during the Crimean war, and the composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
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