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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.

References

1. Miranda Kaufmann, Black Tudors, Oneworld Publications, 2017, p. 15.
2. Ungerer, The Mediterranean Apprenticeship of British Slavery, p. 96.

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