February 7th, 2012
Voting Question: African DNA amongst Native Britons?
Jane L. Thompson and Judith Priestley are co-authors of the following textbook, which provides a thorough introduction to the core topics required for A-level, first year undergraduate and college students, and access course students studying Sociology:
http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?action=search&type=isbn&term=0750616873
There is a notable chapter in regards to the subject of race and ethnicity; whereby, the author alludes to the history of black immigration to the British Isles. Accordingly, the author says that blacks have been in Britain ever since ancient times, because they came as “military commanders and merchants” during the Roman occupation.
Which part of Britain are the African-descended British White people most strongly concentrated in terms of Sub Saharan African DNA?
What percentage of the “native” British population are distantly related to those African-descended people who came to the British Isles during the Roman occupation;and what is the likely percentage of African-descended British people who actually took part in the trans-atlantic slave trade from the sixteenth through to the nineteenth centuries?
