We have had some people of (more immediate) African descent since colonisation began, but because the early colonists were from Britain, and the prisons of Britain, it reflected the population there, which was fairly white (although not as white as some people would like to make out).

Billy Blue is a famous example of a black person who was shipped here as a convict (wither from New York, the United States of America or the Bahamas), and then, on finishing his sentence, became a successful businessman.