Cotton was a completely different slave economy. See, five years ago I wouldnt have written a crass comment like that, but hey, times achanging and as financially independent with some FU-money, I dont have to worry about cancellation culture, LOL. Between that night at the opera and 1807, nearly 800,000 Africans were enslaved. Some were sold to other African tribes and the rest kept as slaves. Theres no point pretending Europeans who profited from either the transatlantic slave trade or the use of slave labour in the Americas were somehow doing a favour to the slaves involved. Societies have had a long history of treating minorities harshly. BurningEars August 30, 2020 at 3:07 pm Theres a flaw in arguments of the form frankly you should be glad I murdered your sister. Prof Olusoga says statues, such as those of slave traders . Ill disparage them. Welsh slave-raids into England continued until early Norman times. It's all down to people in their 20s, those at school and in their teens, who have a relationship with history which, says Prof Olusoga, is profoundly different from that of their parents and grandparents. Different people can argue the toss from different viewpoints and perspectives but in many ways their arguments pass each other like ships in the night, because they havent all got nobodys got an absolute frame of reference to judge things with respect to. Olusogas ancestors will have participated in the capture of sale of slaves in Nigeria. Quite possibly slave-raiding Gaels before that. So 10.416 were sold by the Africans every month for one hundred years, There will be no peace on this issue until black people acknowledge their own responsibility for the trade. It is about the centuries-long engagement with Africa, a consequence of which is the black presence in Britain. Get back to me in seven years, when youre ready to order. 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 economics of the slave trade may have meant that it was cheaper to work someone to death rather than allowing him a comfortable old age. A renowned economist has said that $12 trillion should be afforded to black Americans in reparation for slavery to help the close wealth gap.. White communities suffer huge losses from Black crime. I cant see this one surviving people being expected to dig into their pockets for a few trillion. You should know better. (As the first person to mention the Sokoto Caliphate ahh, forget it.). Fired by religious feeling, they embarked on a campaign of public education and political lobbying unprecedented in scale and revolutionary in nature. Dr Peter Olusoga is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology. Certainly they killed them casually often for religious reasons. One person who had a huge impact on Britain was Olaudah Equiano, an enslaved man who bought his freedom and wrote compellingly about his experiences. And that still stands even if there really are a bunch of torturing murderers out there too. Pope Nicholas V gave his blessing, so long as the Vatican benefited. Reckon they found commenters guessing which parts of a hypothetical argument were meant all part of the fun, In many respects youre one of the posters here whose views on morality Im closest to our personal moralities probably being quite far apart, but I recognise mine as very much the product of my upbringing and surrounding society and know enough about other places and times to realise just how contingent that makes them. Long after slavery ended in the British colonies, British people continued to lobby the American government to free their slaves. He presented the recent series of A House Through Time on BBC 2, and Black and British: A Forgotten History. I was doing some genealogy research when I discovered my great grandfather was a well known member of the 18th Kentucky Infantry. A fifty quid note in the hand of the first black bloke you encounter. The Benin Dialogue Group announced it had brokered an agreement that will see "some of the most iconic" of the bronzes returned to Benin City, Nigeria, where they will be housed in the soon-to-be-built Benin Royal Museum. Not good. Dr Peter Olusoga is a senior psychology lecturer at Sheffield Hallam university. That is a strawman argument at its best. Its a shame They included Josiah Wedgwood (the pottery entrepreneur), Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson. 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.. 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. What is their strongest argument? Id say this to Mr Olusoga. In the late 1800's and early 1900's, 30,000 Jewish migrants from Russia and Eastern Europe settled in Manchester. Then the adult men became profitable too. 2023 BBC. Jamaicans and Nigerians used to hate each other. When Olusoga recalled the experience before television cameras last year, he wept. . My great grandfather fought to end slavery in a war. Its very noticable how nobodys mentioning that the Spanish Empire were doing this for several centuries before the British got involved. As for the future, the University of Manchester professor says younger generations give him hope. Video, 00:02:30. I know. It costs money to replace them and after a famine the price of slaves would rise. Get back to us when your sin/privilege is expunged. If someone from Portugal or France wants to explain why their country has done a better job of getting the balance right, Im open to hearing it. So there were times when food was expensive, we can call those shortages or famines. Their cities, as well as their comfort, will rapidly decay. ), Who is fundamentally right about reparations for slavery? Surely the US has already spent much more than that on black Americans. He also studied at the University of Liverpool and so benefits from slavery as much as anyone else. We do not know enough to be sure. Olusoga, who presents the BBC documentary series A House Through Time, told presenter Lauren Laverne that racism was "just the background hum of life" when he was growing up. 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? They also ran a slave trade to the Ottoman empire and white slavery in the north without any help from Europeans. Forbes magazine's extraordinarily arrogant contributor Tim Worstall Jeremy Corbyn. 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. Or anything to do with slavery. In fact he is a biased political campaigner working to attack and do as much damage to Britain as he can. Probably few other societies had as much chance of buying freedom. many African tribes kept slaves. Writing in english is cultural appropriation so STFU. How could Britain, a civilised and Christian nation, indulge in rape, torture, killing and the forced labour of Africans over two centuries? The New Statesmans weekly environment email on the politics, business and culture of the climate and nature crises - in your inbox every Thursday. David Olusoga's Family David Olusoga, age 49 was born to a Nigerian father and a British mother. Should black history be taught all year round? After decades of complaints, the Royal African Company lost its monopoly in 1712 and, Olusoga writes, Independent traders were turned loose upon the shores of Africa. These traders had argued (stone-blind to irony) that the right to enslave Africans was a defining feature of English freedom and that the Royal African Company had breached their status as free-born Englishmen. Country Star Kacey Musgraves: Voting for Trump Is an Act of Violence. In the end, wholl be proven right about the matter practically, in terms of what the outcome is and what the first drafts of history say? Such sources give his writing freshness, originality and compassion. Anybody can do this. West Indians fought with the Allies more than a hundred were decorated. It is a form of self-loathing. When the American Civil War interrupted the supply of cotton, hundreds of thousands of British workers were made destitute, dependent on soup kitchens, and the British economy was dealt a thunderous blow, all because an ocean away the forced labour of four million enslaved black Americans had been disrupted. In the case of slavery the answer is clear. And the third, fourth, fifth, and so on. However, it applies to at least 80% of Americans. Pretty much everybody in the West is against slavery. (and white people was pretty much the British). The good news is that Black Lives Matter may be that trigger. Should black history be taught all year round? How does importing new labour from West Africa solve the food shortage in the West Indies? Heroes of 2020 What Marcus Rashford's campaign for hungry children tells us about . "This generation has the greatest knowledge-giving tool ever created and they have access to knowledge that I just did not have when I was younger. He is the author of the 2016 book Black and British: A Forgotten History, which was awarded both the Longman-History Today Trustees Award 2017 and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2017. Olusoga poses as an objective historian and says he is not there to bring comfort to people. But as someone who is damaged by slavery I have lived in racially mixed communities and I am happy to see Obama and Kamala pay up. 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. Perhaps Im a bit more culturally relativist these days, but just read it again, still absolutely awful. 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? Black history: Should it be part of the wider curriculum? That may have caused more violence. Shouldnt Olusoga be writing in Ubangi bantu-language? 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. In 1796, a bill was defeated by only four votes: a group of abolitionist MPs went to the opera and missed the vote. Instead the racket still goes on with endless boatloads of illegals swarming into Europe. 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. You lost those two. Within the EU the two most common ages of consent are 14 and 15 (if Ive done my counting correctly), though in some but not all cases thats with additional restrictions on permissible age gaps. David Olusoga Historian, broadcaster and film-maker. Those aged 11-14 have to be taught about the British Empire between 1745-1901, however the slave trade is one of nine examples given by the Department of Education on what can be taught. As it happens, I dont believe in sins of the fathers passing down the generations. If slavery really mattered theyd be campaigning for reparations from the blacks and arabs/moslems who were doing it long before the white man arrived in Africa and was far more devastating. In the USA? And, of course, being half white, he is only entitled to half the reparation payment. No? Giles Terera, the Olivier award-winning British performer who starred in the popular theatre production Hamilton, has . His choice of subject and his choice of material make that very clear. If you are wracked with guilt, ashamed of your forebears, do it! If more African-Americans started to vote Republican and the Democrats felt they needed something radical to boost their offer, and had enough support from liberal whites and other groups to risk further losses among blue-collar whites, for example. David Olusoga is a 49-year-old historian and presenter Credit: Getty - Contributor David Olusoga is a British Nigerian historian, broadcaster and writer. Maybe Europeans did increase demand. They organised a boycott of sugar, produced more petitions and hosted meetings. 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. You can be redeemed, you worthless pasty people. The exception is Tim Worstall, who is truly the Ron Jeremy of blogging. The UK, Norway, Benelux, Spain, Malta and Switzerland are, I believe, the only western European countries to set it at 16. Just as how in the 16th century the anti-slavery voices in Europe were overwhelmed, and in the 19th century the abolitionists won out. Inflaming the reader has no purpose relative to slavery. Thats fine, BraveFart. I have that estimate saved and ready to be critiqued as part of a larger project. That is not true. At the moment it seems to regarded as a good thing. And any reparations should be paid 50% by the African states for the areas which sold the slaves and pocketed the proceeds. When I met her, ~1995, I started asking her questions about the war, as I thought she was a fabulous resource of information. Video1894 shipwreck confirms tale of treacherous lifeboat, How 10% of Nigerian registered voters delivered victory, Sake brewers toast big rise in global sales, The Indian-American CEO who wants to be US president, Blackpink lead top stars back on the road in Asia, Exploring the rigging claims in Nigeria's elections, 'Wales is in England' gaffe sparks TikToker's trip. Oblong, Rather that certain western states, still in existence therefore potentially still liable, regulated and indeed encouraged the development of both the transatlantic slave trade and the slave-labour economic systems of the colonies, at scales that were unusual in the long and varied history of slavery, and levels of brutality that stood out too. 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. One issue about Westerners buying slaves via a chain of commerce that often ultimately involved Africans selling other Africans at traditional slave-trading locations (there was some slave-raiding by Europeans directly, but rarer) is that the extra demand distorted the market, led directly to more armed slave-raiding expeditions against rival tribes and so on. He is a Cultural Marxist trying to destroy the West. It built slave forts on the African coast, some such as Bunce Island in Sierra Leone furnished with a rape house. The New Statesmans global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. My first reaction, years and years ago, was thats awful. "They're not looking to history only to make them feel good and give them comfort, but they're looking to history to tell them things about truths about their society that we have traditionally edited out of British history.". Davids all done. This year, return to Neverland. 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). It was such a brilliantly organised programme of mass protest that slavery was declared abolished in 1833: 46,000 slave owners were given 20m in compensation (17bn in todays money), the largest payout in British history and 40 per cent of all government spending that year. While I dont think they persuaded anyone, they did shift perspectives a bit. And tolerance is not a given. It may not. Wider imperialism reparations that include South Asia, China for the Opium Wars and so on, surely even more prohibitively costly, regardless of how effective the education system gets at making young Brits feel a vague sense of guilt about it all. Flyover Americans arent going to take it. It was, I believe, the first book I ever bought for myself with my own money. But any planter who deliberately starved his slaves to death would quickly go bust. Fuck right off As a winning debating strategy. Nineteen eighty-four was a transformative year for David Olusoga. December 2020. In dealing with the black contribution to the First World War, for example, he cites popular gratitude and admiration for black Britons among them Walter Tull, who fought on the Western Front. The arguments do you want to get shaken down for several trillion?. Just how much should Olusoga receive? A weekly round-up of some of the best articles featured in the most recent issue of the New Statesman, sent each Saturday. You can pay all the reparation for historical slavery related wrongs, real or imaginary, you want. The publication in 1852 of Uncle Toms Cabin, by the American abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, swelled national sympathy for the plight of black slaves. True that unlike certain other examples of slavery, you werent likely to be killed as part of a religious sacrifice or as part of your owners funeral. The agreement is being touted as a . We do not know how great the demand for women was. MBE: The problem with the UK paying reparations is that people like Olusoga would have to pay their share of the greatly increased taxes. So wherever the wealth came from, it wasnt just slavery (or even mainly), Olusogas an alright presenter but a class A race hustler, Edward Lud August 30, 2020 at 9:12 am We could just cut to the chase, and impose a reparations tax on anyone who is descended from from anyone who did something, er, wrong.. Or they may discover how little black lives do matter. Abolition was the first mass philanthropic movement in Britain, and it ended the slave trade in 1807. That someone did something 200 years ago means double ought nothing.. Anglo-Saxons had slaves. Hes insisting that a household headed by a 21 year old black should have the average wealth of all white households. If you want to pay more tax, just write a cheque to HMRC and send it off. Joining them is Psychologist and Lecturer at Lancaster University, Dr David Tod, for a fascinating conversation about the psychology of acting. The government has said the "flexibility within the history curriculum means that there is the opportunity for teachers to teach about BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) history across a spectrum of themes and eras" so it did "not believe it was necessary to change the curriculum". "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.". We are told that an estimated 12.5 million slaves were shipped from Africa to the West Indies and elsewhere in the 18th century. Shipwrecked off the coast of Africa, he, and other survivors, were taken by an African tribe as captives. Under English law, damages are assessed as being that amount needed to restore them to the position they would have been, had the event claimed against not occurred. Id agree that attitudes in the UK are approaching that situation, but theres still a long, long way to go yet. Definitely didnt die out with the Romans. 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. Deliberately shipping that many people that far in order to participate in a newly-created society whose economic system was designed, pretty much from the ground up, around slave labour? Olusoga has benefited from and added significantly to the work of Fryer and other historians such as James Walvin. In that moment, his interest in history overlapped. But Ill tell you what, slavery and human sacrifice, still awful. I still find arguing the toss, or watching others doing so, interesting partly because it shows how the viewpoints are divergent, how many arguments are self-interested, what social, cultural and economic forces are at work behind it all. The masses who once supported black freedom now campaigned for the Deep South. Would probably have taken your suggestion as a challenge. 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. Olusoga is of half Nigerian descent. 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. Its a replay of the ecology nutters & the trannies. If we look back history is just an unending series of atrocities. But werent they lucky compared to the other Germans in Stalingrad? Like the Nigerian slavers who enslaved and sold the slaves, you mean? June 16, 2020 - 20:29 BST Aisha Nozari. I havent said anything about my personal sense of guilt or responsibility. 5 quotes from David Olusoga: 'On a peninsula protruding into one of the great highways of the Atlantic slave trade, a few hundred refugees from British slavery in North America were attempting to recreate the social structures of Northern Europe in the Middle Ages.', 'Time and again events and phenomena that we think we know and understand contain within them lost or camouflaged connections to . 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. Would the good professor really be so different if genealogical records could prove he had African ancestors who owned African slaves? David Olusoga, 49, is a television presenter and historian. The stars are out as Dr Pete Olusoga explores the psychology of stage and screen with the wonderful British actor (and Coronation Street veteran), Shobna Gulati. Required fields are marked *. Slavery within West African societies being different again I dont think the places with very high rates of local slavery were anything like the sugar plantations. "They look to history not just for inspiration and comfort, not just for heroes and for glorious chapters; they look for history expecting to find challenging stories, painful stories, dark truths, villains as well as heroes. David will . Full text must be online somewhere but theres an extract at https://www.history.co.uk/shows/the-real-vikings/articles/eyewitness-to-the-vikings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxc5ENT8ajg, https://www.history.co.uk/shows/the-real-vikings/articles/eyewitness-to-the-vikings, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestmannaeyjar, https://www.historytoday.com/archive/normans-and-slavery-breaking-bonds, https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/domesday/world-of-domesday/order.htm, Apparently Essay Mills Must Be Made Illegal, Why Oxfam Can Go Boil Their Heads Over Vaccine Patents, The real point about climate change is how cheap the solution is, The excellent Tim Worstall- The Register, Tim Worstall is a darn good economist- Don Boudreaux, Tim Worstall, you pendant- Polly Toynbee, .more sensible than most right wing nutjob bloggersBob Piper. "I first read it as a student and it struck me as something that was very different to other things I was reading about the Atlantic slave trade. 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