Black History Fact of the Day 2

By Dominik Lukes - Posted on 02 October 2008

Artist: Dominik Lukes
Title: Black History Fact of the Day 2
Album: Black History Facts of the Day
Genre: speech
Year: 2008
Length: 0:52 minutes (208.1 KB)
Format: Mono 22kHz 32Kbps (CBR)

Roman Settlements included a substantial black presence including Septimus Severus, an African-born Roman Emperor who died in York in 211. He was recently named as one of the 100 Great Black Brittons. An African auxiliary unit of the Roman army was stationed on Hadrian’s Wall.

More information in the Oxford Companion to Black British History and at http://www.britarch.ac.uk/BA/ba77/feat1.shtml.