Pero Alvarez

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.

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