Black people in Cambridge

The history of black people in Cambridge, UK cannot easily be separated from the history of the University of Cambridge. The university has attracted students from Africa and the African diaspora to the town of Cambridge for more than two centuries. Several notable black people had a Cambridge association in the 18th and 19th centuries, and at the end of the 18th century Cambridge became a centre of abolitionist sentiment. From the end of the 19th century the university started to admit black students in larger numbers. In recent decades, however, the relatively low number of black students ad

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