A number of people of African origin were recorded as servants at the Royal Court of Scotland during the 16th-century, forming a notable African presence at the Scottish royal court. The accounts include gifts of clothing.[1] The American scholar Kim F. Hall has characterised these people as "dehumanised alien curiosities",[2] and their histories, roles at court, and their relationships with communities, are the subject of continuing research and debate.[3]
- ^ Imtiaz Habib, Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500–1677: Imprints of the Invisible (Routledge, 2008), pp. 30–37, 274–294: Peter Fryer, Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain (Sterling VA: Pluto Press, 1984), pp. 2–4.
- ^ Kim F. Hall, Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England (Cornell University Press, 1996), p. 128.
- ^ Miranda Kaufmann, Black Tudors (London, 2017), p. 11: Carole Levin, 'Women in the Renaissance', Renate Bridenthal, Susan Stuard, Merry Wiesner (eds), Becoming Visible: Women in European History (Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1998), pp. 152-173: Sue Niebrzydowski, 'The Sultana and her Sisters: Black Women in the British Isles before 1530', Women's History Review, 10:2 (2001), pp. 187-210. doi:10.1080/09612020100200287