Pero Alvarez

Pero Alvarez was a man who came to England from Portugal, and had been enslaved. Henry VII of England formally declared him free of his slavery, which was not then a recognised state in England. This was a legal proof that was later used as a precedent and was accepted in 1490 by Joao II of Portugal.[1][2]

References
  1. p. 15, Black Tudors, Miranda Kaufmann, St. Ives, England: Clays Ltd., OneWorld Publications, 2017
  2. Ungerer, The Mediterranean Apprenticeship of British Slavery, p. 96


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