Ellen More
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ellen-more-167-18448827
title:
Ellen More
text:
Ellen or Elen More was an African servant at the Scottish royal court. She probably arrived in Scotland in the company of a Portuguese man with imported animals. There are records of clothing and gifts given to her, although her roles and status are unclear. Some recent scholarship suggests she was enslaved, and her arrival in Scotland can be linked indirectly with the slave trade. She is associated with a racist poem by William Dunbar, and may have performed in Edinburgh as the "Black Lady" at
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description:
16th-century African servant at the Scottish court
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_More
date created:
2019-11-09T15:22:13Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T15:52:59Z
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