If their ancestors had remained in Africa would they be better off than they are now? When Olusoga recalled the experience before television cameras last year, he wept. 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? We do not know enough to be sure. 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. 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. "Equiano is the most important voice that we have from the British experience of slavery and the slave trade," he said. Prof Olusoga is not the only person who has been drawn to Equiano's story. He is a Cultural Marxist trying to destroy the West. White people are unique in ending slavery across the world*. 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. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. After all, adult males were all but worthless and demand for women might have been enough to drive the trade anyway. People seem pretty much agreed on what is right and what is wrong. The strongest case I can see against reparations is not fundamentally a legal one but perhaps one degree abstracted the law if we can litigate that, we can litigate a heck of a lot of stuff from centuries past, tie our legal systems up in knots with no obvious limits in sight. History is just one awful thing after another. It could not have happened at all unless African traders and kings had offered slaves to the Europeans. Your email address will not be published. The best and brightest minds in the UK defended Stalins slavery. They arent going to concede anything. Im not even saying thats a convincing argument, it has some very serious weak points, just that I reckon its a stronger one than a general appeal about current inequality. If we look back history is just an unending series of atrocities. We do not know for sure. I doubt that they are now firmly united in a common cause. many African tribes kept slaves. 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. It may have made sense for the SS to starve labourers to death. Olusoga is making an appeal to white guilt. 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. 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. But that ignores how the demand of outsiders led inevitably to far more supply being provided. Read about our approach to external linking. 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. Even Bill Clinton had affinity for the USA. It was the first of the slave narratives that I'd ever read and I found it astonishing.". I am not so sure about that although it is another argument. 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. Watching @worstall execute @richardjmurphy is like watching a very, very clever cat slowly killing at ataxic mouse. There is an alternative argument that it is their ancestors who were wronged hence deserve compensation and as descendants theyre entitled to an inherited share (so their portion depends on how many slaves at what position in the family tree) plus interest, regardless of how well theyre doing now. 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. What is their strongest argument? 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. 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. 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. "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.". White communities suffer huge losses from Black crime. Olusoga has written stand-alone history books as well as those accompanying his television series. His black half can get the half-payment direct from his white half. They did not pay for them and were going to kill a lot of them anyway. The answer is money. Its a replay of the ecology nutters & the trannies. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. They organised a boycott of sugar, produced more petitions and hosted meetings. 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr_Gide, Less flippantly, Western countries are not of one mind when it comes to the age of consent sex with a 14 year-old is legal in some countries, criminal in others (yes yes, paedophilia versus ephebophilia etc, you got me). Well one economist has worked out the amount to be paid (although not on a damages basis, when one imagines blacks might end up paying whites, but on a close the wealth gap basis): A renowned economist has said that $12 trillion should be afforded to black Americans in reparation for slavery to help the close wealth gap. "They do not want British history to be a catalogue of heroes and victories and glorious chapters," he says. 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. 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? It died out with the Romans leaving, and its non-legality repeatedly reaffirmed from the reign of the early Normans onwards.. Definitely didnt die out with the Romans. In the case of slavery the answer is clear. That someone did something 200 years ago means double ought nothing.. Like Fryers book, Olusogas will inspire and will come to be seen as a major effort to address one of the greatest silences in British historiography. If the alternative was that they were killed? What would happen to that money, who knows, but as its (or was) your money, thats between you and your grifter of choice. I know. So he calls himself a Geordie. . In the USA? Might, in this case, being 100% of the debating point. 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. The strongest argument I can see for reparations is not that white people bear some kind of ancestral blame. And any reparations should be paid 50% by the African states for the areas which sold the slaves and pocketed the proceeds. His exposure to Nigerian culture seems quite limited. If we went down this route thered be goodness knows how much fun and games to be had with legal claims over the treatment of Irish by Cromwell, the clearing of the Highlands and so on, before you even get on to the globe-spanning imperial stuff. But there have been other societies with slavery where slaves had more autonomy and a greater chance of buying their freedom. In the late 1800's and early 1900's, 30,000 Jewish migrants from Russia and Eastern Europe settled in Manchester. The reason why Equiano is not a national name is because slavery is not a part of the history that we teach when it should be because I don't think you can understand the 18th century in particular but also the 19th century without reference to slavery.". West Indians fought with the Allies more than a hundred were decorated. Ill disparage them. Used to be on a long-dead and much missed forum where the topics of debate ranged far wider than they do here (as did the viewpoints I think it would be useful if us right-wing brexity mob didnt chase off the sensible non-right-wing non-brexity types so much). 7 years was the average working lifespan so it is said. Thousands of petitions were presented to parliament. 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. Its a shame This is nothing to do with slavery or as with black lives matter, blacks being shot, and everything to do with a shakedown of the white man. Prof David Olusoga has presented numerous documentaries including A House Through Time and Black and Black and British: A Forgotten History, Olaudah Equiano played a role in Britain's abolishment of slavery, Performer Giles Terera has written a play featuring Equiano, Prof Olusoga said when it was published, people did not believe the book was by an African as it was deemed so well written, Bernardine Evaristo (second left) has launched a series called Black Britain: Writing Back which features novels by black British authors that have been overlooked, Should black history be taught all year round? She wasnt interested in my academic pursuit. He writes to inflame white guilt, so that you will ACCEPT destruction of your culture. 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. Prof Olusoga says statues, such as those of slave traders . Forbes magazine's extraordinarily arrogant contributor Tim Worstall Jeremy Corbyn. That hes able to write this article is because hes living in what is, by historical standards, a remarkably tolerant society. 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. It wasnt always so & it may not be in the future. It's against this backdrop that Black British History Month was created. Even did something positive. (I suppose it makes a point about blame not being distributed homogeneously, or that a certain group of people shouldnt be guilted just because they share the same colour of skin with another bunch of people you do think are guilty. Nobody will stop you, honest. That is not true. What has he got to say about that? By this logic, we ought to sue the African American community. Hundreds of White women raped every day. Its been banned for two centuries in Britain. 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. That was a bad experience but he should know that you cannot judge a whole country by what happened when he was young. This is a moral argument. Over 1000 years in Britain. Anglo-Saxons had slaves. Women such as Elizabeth Heyrick continued to lobby for the abolition of slavery. Nor do I think that sugar is worse than cotton. Just means they werent alone in being in the wrong. In 1796, a bill was defeated by only four votes: a group of abolitionist MPs went to the opera and missed the vote. So my advice would be, for his own health, STFU. Video, 00:02:30Should black history be taught all year round? Again, not that these market forces absolve the sellers of a moral responsibility, but there is an argument occasionally deployed that slaves would have been slaves anyway. And yes, grand scheme of things, forced choice between living in a central Asian city about to be captured by ticked-off Mongols and an African tribal group about to be captured by profit-hungry slavers then fine, I take the latter hands down. 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. Tull played professional football for Northampton but instead of signing up for Glasgow Rangers, he enlisted. Good point, I wonder how he squares the obviously comfortable living he has writing, opining and broadcasting about slavery with his principles. Long after he had published Corydon, his defence of pederasty. 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, 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?. Cest de la trs bonne dialectique conomique. Hes welcome to pursue his line of thought but he should bear in mind that tolerance is, by its nature, in the gift of the powerful. Like I said before, tolerance is in the gift of the powerful. not at all to disparage your ancestors GC. Olusoga was born in Lagos to a White mother and a Nigerian father - who, I hate to say nautrally, did a runner. It was far too real to her. But morals are very transient things. December 2020. 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. I assume he is not very bright and Race Hustling is very lucrative. They have a game plan & youre falling for it. Not to say it was nice.. 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. 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, even if, as it happens but their owners could not have predicted, their surviving descendants ended up financially better off on average than the counterfactual of remaining in Africa. "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. Married an American GI after the war. Blacks like Mr Olusoga despite endlessly banging on about it seem to overlook the fact that they are in a minority. Away from the creative arts, the Equiano Project aims to promote race equality and he was mentioned in Parliament during a debate on Black History and Cultural Diversity in the Curriculum. Of course if a rule was instituted that only people with white skins had to pay taxes, it might happen. A fifty quid note in the hand of the first black bloke you encounter. Id agree that attitudes in the UK are approaching that situation, but theres still a long, long way to go yet. 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. Maybe Europeans did increase demand. Just as how in the 16th century the anti-slavery voices in Europe were overwhelmed, and in the 19th century the abolitionists won out. They are stupid false for America. Britain should be proud of helping to stop (African to America) slavery, like the Republican Party and unlike the Democrats. Pretty sure if you could, implausibly, trace my family tree through various not-very-literate eras youd pass through at least one Anglo-Saxon who owned a bunch of Britons. Though I dont know where wed get $12 trillion in Confederate currency. "The way history is viewed is changing. Olusoga patterns his narrative after Fryers, starting with the North African presence in Roman Britain. David Olusoga is a 49-year-old historian and presenter Credit: Getty - Contributor David Olusoga is a British Nigerian historian, broadcaster and writer. He was immersed in it. I cant see this one surviving people being expected to dig into their pockets for a few trillion. The details of difference are fairly minor. If you want to pay more tax, just write a cheque to HMRC and send it off. Should almost go without saying except of course that it doesnt, since clearly not every culture has the same moral gut reaction to it that I do. Slaves were crowded in a new environment with new diseases. 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. Instead he has become a campaigner working to discredit Britain, the country that has educated him, promoted him and brought him fame and acceptance. When I met her, ~1995, I started asking her questions about the war, as I thought she was a fabulous resource of information. 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. Hes insisting that a household headed by a 21 year old black should have the average wealth of all white households. The publication in 1852 of Uncle Toms Cabin, by the American abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, swelled national sympathy for the plight of black slaves. "The phenomena of which he is iconic is one that we have written out, edited out of our nation. 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. All in all your typical West African is far more likely to have ancestral connections to the slave trade than your typical Brit. Later his parents separated from each other when he was just two years old. The vast majority of Americans are not guilty. It's possibly a deeper change than some people realise because I don't think what we're living through is a series of political events; I think we're living through a generational shift," he says. His book is a product of that childhood terror, and partly an exploration of his condition as a black Briton. By David Dabydeen (Photo By Alamy) Nineteen eighty-four was a transformative year for David Olusoga. . And yet Africans and West Indians were banned from the victory parade in 1919. In 1787, they met in London and set up the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. "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. Why are these characterizations needed? The Sokoto Caliphate probably had as many slaves and a lot fewer free men as the Old South. But Ill tell you what, slavery and human sacrifice, still awful. It is a form of self-loathing. Support 100 years of independent journalism. The New Statesmans weekly environment email on the politics, business and culture of the climate and nature crises - in your inbox every Thursday. This history of the black presence in . This ignorant fellow should study historical facts, rather than believing and repeating lies and half-truths. 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? Some were sold to other African tribes and the rest kept as slaves. 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. Although the bottom line is that no Black person remembers slavery. "I don't know why this generation has a different relationship with the past, goes to the past, expecting and looking for different things to earlier generations, but that's really is my observation about them," he says adding the internet has played a huge part. Inflaming the reader has no purpose relative to slavery. Viking Dublin was a major slave-trading centre (English, Irish, Scots, anyone else they could get their hands on). Purely speculatively, and as a matter of prediction rather than judging whats best, its hard to imagine large-scale reparations ever being adopted in Blighty because the ratio of losers to winners with the vote (presuming eg British Asians would be ineligible for compensation) is going to remain unfavourable and the cost of reparations across the relevant parts of the old Empire (if youre compensating British Jamaicans, presumably youre going to compensate all the Jamaicans in Jamaica once youve accepted the principle) would be considerable. One in which enslaved people suffered and even died from malnutrition, as the economics of the slave trade meant that it was cheaper, at times, to starve people and then replace them than it was to provide them with food. 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. 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. 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. Not a big fan of the odd human sacrifice Im afraid, even though I might just be of very partial Scandinavian descent myself. If black lives really mattered these people would be protesting the 500 shot dead so far by predominantly black men in Chicago this year. So is Richard Murphy. 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.. I have done nothing. Both groups today, especially the former, could reasonably claim historic persecution has reduced their present income and wealth. The arguments do you want to get shaken down for several trillion? I just dont really get what Olusoga is saying. Then, in October, came a breakthrough. 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. (and white people was pretty much the British). Cheap ass presentism. TV historian David Olusoga claims it is "palpable nonsense" to say that removing controversial statues "somehow impoverishes history". And even if you personally disagree with it, what would be the strongest argument for some form of legal settlement? Or they may discover how little black lives do matter. 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. The good news is that Black Lives Matter may be that trigger. The agreement is being touted as a . I brought up paedophilia to demonstrate that there are things not worth my time. 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. arguments are pretty weak since relying on a doctrine of virtues of the fathers risks implicitly accepting sins of the fathers.. Then the second. . 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During the Second World War, thousands of black American soldiers stationed in Britain were befriended by white Britons who opposed efforts by the white military to segregate them. Country Star Kacey Musgraves: Voting for Trump Is an Act of Violence. The world has seen more slavery since its abolition than before. Between that night at the opera and 1807, nearly 800,000 Africans were enslaved. To be honest, I was a bit sceptical about the Olympics coming to London, but the atmosphere across the capital was genuinely wonderful . And so many hundreds of thousands of British workers were directly dependent on slavery (from sailors to those who built, rigged and repaired ships) that it was easy to turn a blind eye to the inhumanity. Olusoga has benefited from and added significantly to the work of Fryer and other historians such as James Walvin. Even discussing it gives your opponents arguments merit. He also studied at the University of Liverpool and so benefits from slavery as much as anyone else. 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. Although I would expect the Germans, and perhaps even the Japanese, to be happy they lost the war. And he might not find the society withdraws it nearly as comfortable for him to live in. As a nation, we still have only a dim understanding of the slave system that funded Sloanes collecting. 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. Exactly, bis. 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. Theres a flaw in arguments of the form frankly you should be glad I murdered your sister, since had I not done so, its quite possible though we cannot be sure that someone else would have tortured her then murdered her, which is even worse, so whos the real criminal? Which is that I still murdered your sister. is that the extra demand distorted the market, led directly to more armed slave-raiding expeditions against rival tribes and so on.. 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). Its entirely possible to think something was awful without feeling the slightest twinge of guilt or personal responsibility. It may not. 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