A generation before Hezekiah Moscow and Alec Munroe, Plantagenet (also Edward or John) Green came to London from Barbados. A ship's cook, he became an 1850s prizefighter, a friend to Bob 'the Black Wonder' Travers, and a boxing instructor:
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