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North African
This is how the first recorded African community in Britain came to be
The presence of Africans in Britain can be traced to when North African soldiers guarded a Roman fort in Burgh-by-Sands. The North African troops were known as the Aurelian Moors because they were named after Emperor Marcus Aurelius, according to Cumbria County History. They were believed to have been enlisted from the Berber people of…
