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was, relatively speaking, a large black population estimated variously between 1020,000, mainly centred around London and the ports, in a total population in England
and Wales of 9,000,000.
It declined during the course of the 19th century, and according to David Killingray,
census returns suggested the following estimated figures for Africans in the UK: 1911 4,540, 1921 - 4,940, 1931 - 5,202,