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A judgement was made in the English Court of King's Bench in 1722. It was deemed illegal to have ownership over slaves on English soil. All slaves were freed.
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George Africanus is born in 1763 in Sierra Leone, West Africa.
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George Africanus was moved to Wolverhampton where he was given as a gift to the Molineux family.
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George Africanus was crhristened and was three years old when Molineuxs began to educate him.
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George Africanus arrived at England in the early 1766.
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George Africanus was christened at St. Peter’s Church, Wolverhamptonh.He is given his full name 'George John Scipio Africanus '. He was at the time described as a negro that belonged to Benjamin Molineux.
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George Africanus apprenticed a brassfounder in Wolverhampton.
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After George Africanus was apprenticed as a brassfounder, he moved to Nottingham as an adult.
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George Africanus marries Esther Shaw, a local woman, at St Peter's Church, Nottingham.
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After George Africanus and Esther Shaw were married, they founded an emploment agency named Africanus' Resgister of Servants.
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All slave was abolished on the 25 Msrch 1807 as an act of parliament.However this did not affect George Africanus as he won his freedom long before the event.
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George Africanus becomes a freeholder. He now owns his faily a house as wall as business presmises.
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George Africanus died in 1834. His body is buried in buried in St Mary’s Church in Nottingham. He was named 'Nottingham's First Black Entrepreneur.'
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Esther Shaw died on 12 May 1863 at the age of 85 years.
