A favorite source of this immigration was what is now North Africa and what was then a roughly 300 year old part of the conquered Carthaginian Empire. It seems all the chariot dust and other man made stuff had turned a once thriving savanna/tropical climate into a semiarid desert and new homes had to be made for the immigrants elsewhere in the empire.
Colchester was near ground zero for this immigration wave.
Fast forward two centuries or so and the King of the Colchester area was Old King Cole of nursery rhyme fame. Supposedly, he got his name from the city and his skin color, so was most likely a North African Berber by ancestry.
Needless to say, the original natives of the area didn't have a great appreciation of the diversity imposed upon them by Rome.
Sounds oddly familiar to today...................
You have legit sources for that?
Old King Cole is derived from Coel
As in coil....not coal as in dark or swarthy or black
Every historical reference I’ve seen to the origin of Old King Cole...a rhyme from 1700s
Is a Briton or Welsh king who rebelled against the Romans or latter overlord
Its like when I’ve seen folks claim black Irish really means Negroes
Not swarthy or maybe at most Galician celto-dna
I just file such nonsense in my files along with race is a social construct or Cleopatra was black etc
Could ancient Romans masters have brought north African slaves or soldiers to Britain
Yes it seems reasonable?
Were they negroid raced...no.
In fact north Africa at this time was less Arab than now and more simply Med basin Caucasians....some even....God forbid blonde and fair
Its so silly the lengths and lies we go to in order to make legacies for non whites that they can be proud of or even better....feel superiority over whites
And if that doesn’t work...the white man robbed it.
I love how so many movies and TV series today put Negroes and Orientals in historical context where they factually don’t belong
Its as bad as shield maidens as something more than Valkyrie mythology