On Oct 18, 11:56*am, Alan LeHun wrote:
In article ,
says...

Did Dickens actually ever meet a black person before 1838?

Erm. Yes.

By the last quarter of the 18th century there were estimated to be up
to 10,000 black people in London.

Fair enough. I thought that in his position he would have kept company
with the various people who employed (sponsored, whatever) these
immigrants (who were mostly brought in to do household duties) so I
expected a yes.

I didn't expect your figure though. Immigration was piecemeal before
about 1815 when I thought (without much confidence, admittedly) that the
figure was less than 10,000 for the whole of England.

--
Alan LeHun

The other issue was that as slavery was replaced with
industrialistation the the actuall presence of black people fell in
London the only other enclaves were communities near the dock areas
with Canning Town being mentioned.

I'm not having a go at 'any group people ' per se being represented if
its historically and socially in context. I was merely illustrating
that the BBc are 'ncreasingly 'making it up' to salve their guilty
conciences, however revising history is not the way to do it. Further
to that all this was only to underline how the BBc discard the
climate news that doesn't suit their agenda.