That hes able to write this article is because hes living in what is, by historical standards, a remarkably tolerant society. The South Sea bubble, the greatest financial crash of the 18th century, was intimately connected to Britains dealings with Africa, though this is rarely acknowledged by historians. But it is Olusoga who keeps insisting that its the Brits who are uniquely responsible.. Olusoga was born in Lagos to a White mother and a Nigerian father who, I hate to say nautrally, did a runner. Now Im trying to imagine just what the strongest case for reparations might be, but even in this thought experiment its hard to see what the eligibility criteria for receiving payment should be, what sum should be due, how much proof is required of eligibility not everyone will have a good set of family records etc. Over 1000 years in Britain. Particularly as nowadays anyone who dares even look at someone a few days below the age of consent is believed to be an incorrigible nonce who deserves hanging, castration, or castration by hanging. Get back to me in seven years, when youre ready to order. This ignorant fellow should study historical facts, rather than believing and repeating lies and half-truths. But its still awful, even on a historical scale.. Certainly they killed them casually often for religious reasons. The novel became the bestselling book of 19th-century Britain; it was adapted for the theatre and generated mass-produced merchandise playing cards, jigsaws, tableware. Viking Dublin was a major slave-trading centre (English, Irish, Scots, anyone else they could get their hands on). There is no reason to think one system was more or less brutal than the other. His current research focuses on stress, burnout, and wellbeing in sports, with a particular interest in high-performance environments and elite coaching. Slaves were crowded in a new environment with new diseases. Indeed in many cases, whose ancestors didnt even live in France or England at the relevant time. Olusoga has benefited from and added significantly to the work of Fryer and other historians such as James Walvin. Video, 1894 shipwreck confirms tale of treacherous lifeboat, BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3: The Meaning of Zong, BBC Bitesize: The Zong 1781-1783 - The triangular trade, during a debate on Black History and Cultural Diversity in the Curriculum, Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Explosive found in check-in luggage at US airport, Fungus case forces Jack Daniels to halt construction, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, Fire knocks out half of Argentina's power grid, Havana Syndrome unlikely to have hostile cause - US, Starbucks illegally fired workers over union - judge. "Incorporating the stories of people like Equiano is merely part of a process of looking at all of British history; not just being selective, not only going to the chapters that make us feel good about ourselves or proud.". That was when the Democrats were still Americans. 7 years was the average working lifespan so it is said. It costs money to replace them and after a famine the price of slaves would rise. I am of Ulster Scot heritage, who were originally John Knoxs Cumberland Presbyterians, VERY MUCH against slavery. Thankfully the Woke have gifted us an all purpos3e response to this sort of crap. There is plenty of slavery about we just do not call it that. I havent said anything about my personal sense of guilt or responsibility. Olusoga has written stand-alone history books as well as those accompanying his television series. it was cheaper, at times, to starve people and then replace them In 1860, cotton goods accounted for 40 per cent of all British exports. Make sure it doesnt happen in the least costly way. Sooner or later, we whites are going to have to take a stand, and say we aint taking this any more. Mans a loon. They may have been turning people they would have killed into a profitable commodity. He was immersed in it. Theres an argument about judging people by the standard of their times, though even in the 1500s moral and religious objections to the slave trade had been made and the rationale of crimes against humanity is that some things are so abhorrent they could never truly be legal no matter what moral code the perpetrators justified themselves with. But Ill tell you what, slavery and human sacrifice, still awful. We pretend we do not like slavery but actually we do not like slave traders. Very often shaped by the political, technological and economic forces of the times if the Western way of life had remained utterly dependent on Roman-style slavery, Im not sure wed ever have abolished it even amongst our own inhabitants. A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. Thy did not try to grow or raise the next generation. I know. Olusogas stated purpose is to argue that black British history is not about migration and settlement, whether of black servants in the 18th century or black workers in the Windrush era. Anyway, I digress, we did have at some point, a gang of pedos turn up and put their case, reasonably, and were tolerated and conversed with. Presumably there were normal times when food was cheap that you fed your workers and didnt seek to replace them in the way Olusoga means. They are pretty much airbrushed from history, whereas the transatlantic slave trade seems to be wall-to-wall on our TV screens and in our school textbooks. Id say theres enormous dangers in treating this as if it was some public school debating society gig. It isnt happening now. The following decades were taken up with popular and political rhetoric about immigration and parliamentary acts to limit blacks coming to Britain. His exposure to Nigerian culture seems quite limited. "This is a richer history as well as a necessary history; this is a more vivid history as well as a history that tells the back stories of more people in this country than the traditional narratives we've had.". I have done nothing. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. No doubt life expectancy of a slave was shorter than that for a free man. He seems to be an interesting social historian and his TV series on the occupants of a single house over the centuries is very good, although I suspect a lot of the research is done by others, I look forward to an even handed expose of the entire slave trade from birth to capture, imprisonment, sale, transportation, arrival, sale, treatment and life while enslaved as well as the UKs role in stopping it, But it wont be on the BBC, and he wont be writing it I fear, @smfs Peter Olusoga. That star stuff wont last. It's against this backdrop that Black British History Month was created. Would probably have taken your suggestion as a challenge. Ive always agreed that the Africans should pay reparations to the rest of us for dumping all those people they wanted to get rid of on us. So he calls himself a Geordie. But it is also likely that disease played a role. Although the bottom line is that no Black person remembers slavery. Arguably wrong in a crimes against humanity way (similar language of natural justice and universal morality indeed being used by the abolitionists and the UK itself when it tried to enforce a ban on the trade) that made it inherently illegal even when governments tried to put it on a legal footing. But you need a different approach if you dont think great-grandkids of the Confederacy are still fair game.) For some peculiar reason possibly because theres a section of Western society has become very insecure about its own position its being some credence. Its been banned for two centuries in Britain. As Black British History Month draws to a close, TV historian Prof David Olusoga looks at the impact it's had - and how young people are taking it on. How does importing new labour from West Africa solve the food shortage in the West Indies? Though I dont know where wed get $12 trillion in Confederate currency. But those were in those long-lost days when democrats and republicans could talk to each other and agree to disagree while both leaving the conversation a little the wiser. Will Britain change? The arguments do you want to get shaken down for several trillion? BZZZTT!! And the fact youre moved to tears by discovering for the first time a great-great-great-grandmother of yours was a prostitute single-mum with seven kids or a great-x5-uncle you had never heard of was imprisoned for murder, well, your utter lack of knowledge simply reveals how little youve been influenced by them, so youre hardly discovering a new facet of yourself at all. First launched in London in 1987, it aims to highlight and celebrate what black people have achieved in Britain throughout history. By David Dabydeen (Photo By Alamy) Nineteen eighty-four was a transformative year for David Olusoga. What do you think their stongest argument is? Just as how in the 16th century the anti-slavery voices in Europe were overwhelmed, and in the 19th century the abolitionists won out. Long after slavery ended in the British colonies, British people continued to lobby the American government to free their slaves. 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Married an American GI after the war. If Olusoga is looking for apologies or compensation for slavery, I am quite prepared to meet him, accept his apology, togehr with cash, cheque or even a postal order. His choice of subject and his choice of material make that very clear. Prof Darity and Ms Mullen outline that to eliminate the existing Black-White wealth gap an allocation of between $10 trillion and $12 trillion, or about $800,000 per black household, should be paid. Well whats the point of pretending it doesnt also induce moral disgust in me, just in case someone mistakes it for guilt, or an admission of liability? Once insignificant villages, great cities such as Liverpool, Bristol and Glasgow sprang up on the profits of slavery. (As the first person to mention the Sokoto Caliphate ahh, forget it.). Sure. It was, I believe, the first book I ever bought for myself with my own money. But slaves were more valuable, so the British fought the Spanish for a share in the trade and eventually came to dominate it. Giles Terera, the Olivier award-winning British performer who starred in the popular theatre production Hamilton, has recently staged a play called the Meaning of Zong about the massacre of 132 enslaved Africans aboard the slave ship Zong in 1781 and the impact it had on Equiano. 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At the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, Britain was granted the right to supply slaves to the Spanish colonies in the Americas, a right then passed on to the South Sea Company. It died out with the Romans leaving, and its non-legality repeatedly reaffirmed from the reign of the early Normans onwards. Whether they are too stupid to think of that remains to be seen. Shipwrecked off the coast of Africa, he, and other survivors, were taken by an African tribe as captives. Thats before you get on to the Khoisan and the Zulus, the Carthaginians and Romans, the Vikings versus pretty much anyone else who lived within raiding distance, Theres a fundamental weakness with all theories of universal law or justice, which is that across time and space, the human conception of what is right and just seems to be extremely varied and rarely (to modern Western eyes) pleasant. As would Beyonce. Both groups today, especially the former, could reasonably claim historic persecution has reduced their present income and wealth. Their demands should simply be refused. Fought to STOP southern independence. Guess wed have to print it. Instead the racket still goes on with endless boatloads of illegals swarming into Europe. As it happens, I dont believe in sins of the fathers passing down the generations. Prof Olusoga, the presenter of the A House Through Time TV series, calls it an act of "historical salvage" to bring to the fore the black British figures who had been "lost in the archives, completely forgotten". Abolition was the first mass philanthropic movement in Britain, and it ended the slave trade in 1807. For almost 60 years, there was impasse. The good news is that Black Lives Matter may be that trigger. My great, great, grandfather was one. She had no interest in esoteric discussions of the war. It was the first of the slave narratives that I'd ever read and I found it astonishing.". Vikings took slaves, including exporting Anglo-Saxons (you must have heard the quote Non Angli, sed Angeli about the English slaves being sold in Italy? Its very noticable how nobodys mentioning that the Spanish Empire were doing this for several centuries before the British got involved. Fryers book was monumental, inspiring conferences, publications, the setting up of local history groups, the establishment of Black History Month, and radio and television programmes. 1894 shipwreck confirms tale of treacherous lifeboat. Then a young teenager, he was driven out of his council home, together with his grandmother, mother, two sisters and younger brother, by a sustained campaign of nightly stoning of their windows. Inflaming the reader has no purpose relative to slavery. Slavery is bad or it isnt. His autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, details how he was sold into slavery aged 11, his experience of travelling the world as slave to a Royal Navy officer - who renamed him Gustavus Vassa - and how he bought his freedom from his final master, an English merchant in Montserrat. Thats what I dont like about the angle of Tims header. Had a vault for the more inflammatory pieces. Ill disparage them. Various among the societies that were agglomerated into Nigeria were more or less involved in that slave trade from the supply end. We do not know for sure. It is about the centuries-long engagement with Africa, a consequence of which is the black presence in Britain. You dont have esoteric discussions with paedophiles any more than you would with serial killers. If you had spare cash or could borrow, investment in slavery was a sure winner, never mind slave rebellions or hurricanes that destroyed cane fields. "The way history is viewed is changing. David then moved with his mother and three siblings in the north-east of the UK. Prof Olusoga is not the only person who has been drawn to Equiano's story. Get back to us when your sin/privilege is expunged. It wasnt always so & it may not be in the future. I was uncomfortable using it. He presented the recent series of A House Through Time on BBC 2, and Black and British: A Forgotten History. Cheap ass presentism. Dont know if I would rule it out entirely because the demographics are different but it might need a change in the voting dynamics. Nevertheless, we live in a society that generally regards slavery as an absolute and eternal wrong, and a grave one at that, yet which has historically (at least certain people and places, and including the state itself) benefited from imposing slavery on others.. Some other buyer would have taken them if they werent shipped out, and Western (or Arab) traders were just changing the ownership and location, the sins of the slave-raiders being theirs alone to bear. This is because forgetting slavery means forgetting its victims. What would happen to that money, who knows, but as its (or was) your money, thats between you and your grifter of choice. "The small minority whose history had been airbrushed out of the national story recovered that history with the help of their allies and then broadcast it, spread it into our national conversation and they did that within the space of half a century. So is Richard Murphy. Even discussing it gives your opponents arguments merit. TV historian David Olusoga claims it is "palpable nonsense" to say that removing controversial statues "somehow impoverishes history". Would, say, Huguenot-descended South Africans suing France over the 1572 St. Bartholomews Day massacre, or Cornish people suing HMG for the suppression of the 1497 Rebellion, deserve compensation?. If one disproves his assertions would slavery then be okay? In America few were castrated, which is why there are now >40 million descendants there. I agree BIS. We aint paying no goddam reparations & no-ones gonna make us. Now they do. Anti-black riots broke out in Liverpool that year. The New Statesmans weekly environment email on the politics, business and culture of the climate and nature crises - in your inbox every Thursday. If you are wracked with guilt, ashamed of your forebears, do it! He is a Cultural Marxist trying to destroy the West. Its a shame He also studied at the University of Liverpool and so benefits from slavery as much as anyone else. The argument isnt whether historical slavery was right or wrong or who should accept responsibility for it. Blacks like Mr Olusoga despite endlessly banging on about it seem to overlook the fact that they are in a minority. Rather the constitution banned the slave trade and so it become economically worth it to make sure slaves lived longer. Olusoga was born in Lagos to a White mother and a Nigerian father - who, I hate to say nautrally, did a runner. Prof Olusoga is not the only person who has been drawn to Equiano's story. That someone did something 200 years ago means double ought nothing.. Olusogas ancestors will have participated in the capture of sale of slaves in Nigeria. In that moment, his interest in history overlapped. "They do not want British history to be a catalogue of heroes and victories and glorious chapters," he says. Slavery didnt last much longer for various reasons, fizzled out in a century or so, but we have the records to show it was still part of the system after twenty years of Norman rule: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/domesday/world-of-domesday/order.htm. They deliberately bought skewed mostly male gender balance. Those who grew rich on slavery and the slave trade were not neutral and no achievement or act of philanthropy justifies airbrushing their involvement from history. Women, denied a meaningful role in politics, formed their own organisations, writing tracts, pamphlets and poems, gathering signatures for petitions and fundraising: At certain times and in certain places they were the engine room of the movement.. The point about slave descendants in Georgia being better off than descendants of slave sellers from West Africa is reasonably strong (though look back in everyones ancestry and youre likely to find, far back enough, a mix of slaves, owners and probably traders too). Cotton was a completely different slave economy. Intellectually more convincing anyway for practical and political purposes, demolishing a straw-man often makes a better video or audio clip while simultaneously making your opponents position sound stupid. Yet American slave-produced raw cotton continued to feed the 4,500 mills of Lancashire. Id agree that attitudes in the UK are approaching that situation, but theres still a long, long way to go yet. The Russians do not have these problems because they are not ashamed. That involved killing the adult men. Just means they werent alone in being in the wrong. Two men managed to escape and were rescued, but not before my great, great, grandfather was beaten, starved and worked to death, his body thrown into the jungle for the animals and insects to dispose of. Read about our approach to external linking. Well the universe has a law of gravity but it doesnt have a law of should there be reparations. What has Nigeria ever done for him? Pope Nicholas V gave his blessing, so long as the Vatican benefited. Video, 00:02:30. "Equiano is the most important voice that we have from the British experience of slavery and the slave trade," he said. "I have," he admits, "a habit of . Video, 00:02:30Should black history be taught all year round? Africans had a demand for female slaves. There is no reason to single White people out for unique levels of criticism. It isnt going to happen anyway. (and white people was pretty much the British). Check out the trailer for Peter Pan & Wendy, an upcoming live-action movie directed by David Lowery. I could just as well feel something else entirely, and Im sceptical of all approaches to impose a supposedly universal, timeless or even just coherent, thats a challenge in itself ethical system. The evidence of this is that seasoned slaves, those exposed to the environment, sold for up to 50% more than new ones. My first reaction, years and years ago, was thats awful. And tolerance is not a given. My family did nothing. Duke University professor, William Darity Jr, and writer, Kirsten Mullen, jointly published a report for The Roosevelt Institute, an American liberal think tank, laying out a case for slavery reparations. Not many remember anything about segregation either. Quite possibly slave-raiding Gaels before that. History is just one awful thing after another. I know there are posters on here who see stepping into their opponents perspective as a dangerous and pointless endeavour that gives undue worth to a viewpoint they despise, but purely as a mental exercise theres usually something to be said for examining your opponents strongest argument instead of their weakest. Prof Olusoga says statues, such as those of slave traders . A renowned economist has said that $12 trillion should be afforded to black Americans in reparation for slavery to help the close wealth gap.. Tim may be wrong about stuff, but ..that, ultimately, makes up for his beating squirrels to death for a hobby, Tim Worstall a horrid man who is anti-minimum wage among other repugnant things Socialist News. 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