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
edit- ^ Miranda Kaufmann, Black Tudors, Oneworld Publications, 2017, p. 15.
- ^ Ungerer, The Mediterranean Apprenticeship of British Slavery, p. 96.
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