and while the responsible state still exists, 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.. Get back to us when youve developed your historicalguiltometer. But any planter who deliberately starved his slaves to death would quickly go bust. And so, equipped with the fruits of Islamic learning (new navigational instruments, books on astronomy and trigonometry), European explorers set sail for Africa to relieve the natives of their gold. 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).. You dont have esoteric discussions with paedophiles any more than you would with serial killers. Shipwrecked off the coast of Africa, he, and other survivors, were taken by an African tribe as captives. Fired by religious feeling, they embarked on a campaign of public education and political lobbying unprecedented in scale and revolutionary in nature. And I dont think this is what reparations campaigners are calling for either, as I understand it their argument includes systematic legacy issues not just the period of slavery itself, so the harm relates more directly to them not just their ancestors. Tull played professional football for Northampton but instead of signing up for Glasgow Rangers, he enlisted. Black and British: A Forgotten History Id say the same to the Black Lives Matter people. 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. Married an American GI after the war. I was uncomfortable using it. 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. It wasnt always so & it may not be in the future. White people will take it. 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. And, of course, being half white, he is only entitled to half the reparation payment. Perhaps Im a bit more culturally relativist these days, but just read it again, still absolutely awful. He adds: "The reason Equiano's story, Equiano's voice, is not as well known as it should be, is because we have a long habit in this country of not wanting to talk about slavery. They included Josiah Wedgwood (the pottery entrepreneur), Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson. 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. I have done nothing. They deliberately bought skewed mostly male gender balance. And yet Africans and West Indians were banned from the victory parade in 1919. I am of Ulster Scot heritage, who were originally John Knoxs Cumberland Presbyterians, VERY MUCH against slavery. A House Through Time returned to BBC Two in May for its third season, and once again is fronted by historian extraordinaire David Olusoga. Fair point. The historian and producer said he wanted to. But slaves were more valuable, so the British fought the Spanish for a share in the trade and eventually came to dominate it. Anybody can do this. Get back to us when your sin/privilege is expunged. So he calls himself a Geordie. A fifty quid note in the hand of the first black bloke you encounter. Thats why we get it. The people in Portland, Seattle and Kenosha are too decadent to fight back. Societies have had a long history of treating minorities harshly. 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. That involved killing the adult men. 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. We aint paying no goddam reparations & no-ones gonna make us. 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.. MyBurningEars August 30, 2020 at 3:31 pm 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?, 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., But there have been other societies with slavery where slaves had more autonomy and a greater chance of buying their freedom.. Its a shame What is their strongest argument? I havent said anything about my personal sense of guilt or responsibility. (and white people was pretty much the British). Read about our approach to external linking. Thankfully the Woke have gifted us an all purpos3e response to this sort of crap. So he calls himself a Geordie. Rapidly promoted to sergeant, then second lieutenant, he led white British troops into action and died in 1918, having been mentioned in despatches and recommended for the Military Cross. And this of course neatly addresses MBEs arguments. But its still awful, even on a historical scale.. Thats why when the question is raised, I always point out that they owe me lots and lots of money. But oddly enough, people like Olusoga havent given me the cash yet. Its very noticable how nobodys mentioning that the Spanish Empire were doing this for several centuries before the British got involved. Would probably have taken your suggestion as a challenge. 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. How would Nigeria treat a foreigner like him? No other race / culture was willing and able to do that. (As the first person to mention the Sokoto Caliphate ahh, forget it.). First launched in London in 1987, it aims to highlight and celebrate what black people have achieved in Britain throughout history. However, it applies to at least 80% of Americans. That someone did something 200 years ago means double ought nothing. Maybe Europeans did increase demand. Its a replay of the ecology nutters & the trannies. I think a case could be made. Blacks like Mr Olusoga despite endlessly banging on about it seem to overlook the fact that they are in a minority. Like I said before, tolerance is in the gift of the powerful. Olusoga is of half Nigerian descent. What would happen to that money, who knows, but as its (or was) your money, thats between you and your grifter of choice. Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade is part of the national curriculum, although it is not statutory. When Olusoga recalled the experience before television cameras last year, he wept. Prof Olusoga is not the only person who has been drawn to Equiano's story. Cheap ass presentism. We do not know for sure. David will . In the USA? I know. Needless to say, the national mood changed. Dr Peter Olusoga is a senior psychology lecturer at Sheffield Hallam university. 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 isnt happening now. not at all to disparage your ancestors GC. Olusoga has benefited from and added significantly to the work of Fryer and other historians such as James Walvin. Both of these need proof. Id say theres enormous dangers in treating this as if it was some public school debating society gig. (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. This is because forgetting slavery means forgetting its victims. John Mandeville, whose travelogue (circa 1356) was one of the most widely translated books of the later Middle Ages, presented Africans as naked savages living amid heaps of gold to which they gave no value. The New Statesmans global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. Indeed in many cases, whose ancestors didnt even live in France or England at the relevant time. Had a vault for the more inflammatory pieces. Thousands of petitions were presented to parliament. Eventually, 11,000 separate British slave-trading expeditions resulted in the trafficking of three-and-a-half-million Africans to the New World plantations, the greatest forced migration in modern history until the 20th century. Exactly, bis. 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. We do not know how great the demand for women was. Their cities, as well as their comfort, will rapidly decay. It could have ended earlier, but the planter interests in parliament defeated William Wilberforces attempts. Maybe heard of Saint Balthild, seventh-century English lass sold into slavery, exported to the Continent, served in a palace and ended up marrying the Frankish King?). And yet anti-black race riots broke out in 1948 in Liverpool and in 1958 in Nottingham and Londons Notting Hill. Olusoga poses as an objective historian and says he is not there to bring comfort to people. While I dont think they persuaded anyone, they did shift perspectives a bit. 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. arguments are pretty weak since relying on a doctrine of virtues of the fathers risks implicitly accepting sins of the fathers.. Fuck right off As a winning debating strategy. 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. 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. And he might not find the society withdraws it nearly as comfortable for him to live in. "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.". It died out with the Romans leaving, and its non-legality repeatedly reaffirmed from the reign of the early Normans onwards. But its still awful, even on a historical scale. He has discovered new and exciting research materials in African archives, among them the Register of Liberated Africans in Sierra Leone, which list names, bodily details, ethnicity and origins, thus putting a human face on people otherwise treated as fodder and statistics. It's against this backdrop that Black British History Month was created. West Indians fought with the Allies more than a hundred were decorated. Would also apply even if down a different family line there had been beneficiaries of the slave trade. But morals are very transient things. In 1787, they met in London and set up the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Women such as Elizabeth Heyrick continued to lobby for the abolition of slavery. But Muslims were enslaving white Europeans into Africa long before the Atlantic route, usually castrating the males. One of the reasons why the American and Caribbean experiences were very different. Get back to me in seven years, when youre ready to order. "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. 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. His black half can get the half-payment direct from his white half. 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. 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. Back in the heyday of blogging, perhaps ten years ago or so, there was a blogger calling him/herself The Heresiarch who enjoyed running against received opinions. That is a strawman argument at its best. I had a girlfriend whose mother was a Nazi. Pretty much everybody in the West is against slavery. Wrong ?!?! And that still stands even if there really are a bunch of torturing murderers out there too. Id agree that attitudes in the UK are approaching that situation, but theres still a long, long way to go yet. A renowned economist has said that $12 trillion should be afforded to black Americans in reparation for slavery to help the close wealth gap.. We pretend we do not like slavery but actually we do not like slave traders. It may have made sense for the SS to starve labourers to death. You know, entirely ignoring lifetime effects? 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). Everyone was. Grew up in Quedlinburg. She wasnt interested in my academic pursuit. Nineteen eighty-four affected him in another way: the publication of Peter Fryers groundbreaking Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain introduced him to the scholarship needed to understand his position in Britain. There is plenty of slavery about we just do not call it that. Why are these characterizations needed? The best and brightest minds in the UK defended Stalins slavery. Just means they werent alone in being in the wrong. Tim says there might be some truth to them for the Caribbean. What difference has it made? You may concede a point here, a point there. 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. This ignorant fellow should study historical facts, rather than believing and repeating lies and half-truths. . it was cheaper, at times, to starve people and then replace them It happened. 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.". It was far too real to her. We do not know enough to be sure. The German survivors of Stalingrad were sent to camps and most of them worked to death. In America few were castrated, which is why there are now >40 million descendants there. And even if you personally disagree with it, what would be the strongest argument for some form of legal settlement? 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. And Britain worked for the whole of the 19th century to put down slavery in Africa. Sure. David Olusoga's Family David Olusoga, age 49 was born to a Nigerian father and a British mother. Id say this to Mr Olusoga. TV historian David Olusoga claims it is "palpable nonsense" to say that removing controversial statues "somehow impoverishes history". They are stupid false for America. Equiano is also mentioned in Incomparable World, a novel by SI Martin, which was selected by Booker award-winning author Bernardine Evaristo for her Black Britain: Writing Back series. "The phenomena of which he is iconic is one that we have written out, edited out of our nation. 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. 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. 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. Anglo-Saxons had slaves. Nor do I think that sugar is worse than cotton. It is a good deed that must not go unpunished. Sugar plantations were bad. The system he witnessed and wrote about was one in which human beings were worked to death. That assumes an increase in demand. . Olusoga unloads all sorts of characterizations. In 1796, a bill was defeated by only four votes: a group of abolitionist MPs went to the opera and missed the vote. "Equiano is the most important voice that we have from the British experience of slavery and the slave trade," he said. After all, adult males were all but worthless and demand for women might have been enough to drive the trade anyway. Once insignificant villages, great cities such as Liverpool, Bristol and Glasgow sprang up on the profits of slavery. If you think 14 is the wrong decision for the boundary, a better argument is a rebuttal of the strongest case for 14 rather than a rebuttal of a straw-man version of it. Good point, I wonder how he squares the obviously comfortable living he has writing, opining and broadcasting about slavery with his principles. I just dont really get what Olusoga is saying. 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 . But that ignores how the demand of outsiders led inevitably to far more supply being provided. His choice of subject and his choice of material make that very clear. They have a game plan & youre falling for it. It is a political campaign, not a contribution to academic history. I brought up paedophilia to demonstrate that there are things not worth my time. Long after slavery ended in the British colonies, British people continued to lobby the American government to free their slaves. His rhetoric is to inflame the reader. Africans had a demand for female slaves. Long after he had published Corydon, his defence of pederasty. Giles Terera, the Olivier award-winning British performer who starred in the popular theatre production Hamilton, has . In the system that made Sloane wealthy, black women sought out herbs, plant species that he carefully identified and categorised, and used them to induce abortions, determined as many were not to bring into the world children who would be born items of property and destined to live short, brutalised lives. Whitey bad, give me cash? Abolition was the first mass philanthropic movement in Britain, and it ended the slave trade in 1807. Then, in October, came a breakthrough. The race obsessed Department of Education goes to considerable lengths to distinguish Caribbeans and West Africans. "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. "We are on a journey in this country and other countries are on similar journeys to try and reconnect to parts of our history that had traditionally been edited out," adds Prof Olusoga. 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. And they will go looking for parts of the past that aren't on the curriculum, and they evidently do. The details of difference are fairly minor. It is about the centuries-long engagement with Africa, a consequence of which is the black presence in Britain. In the UK its not white people enslaving blacks anymore, but Asians enslaving other Asians, as in Leicesters clothing sweatshops. Cotton was a completely different slave economy. Some were sold to other African tribes and the rest kept as slaves. Olusoga, who is half-Nigerian, traces this focus to his mother telling him when he was a child that Nigerian soldiers served in World War II. He is the undisputed King of the Internet Pedants and Lord of the Unnecessary Snark. I assume he is not very bright and Race Hustling is very lucrative. As a nation, we still have only a dim understanding of the slave system that funded Sloanes collecting. In that moment, his interest in history overlapped. Olusoga is just getting even because he was attacked by the right when he was a teenager. You lost those two. is that the extra demand distorted the market, led directly to more armed slave-raiding expeditions against rival tribes and so on.. If you are wracked with guilt, ashamed of your forebears, do it! Prof Olusoga says statues, such as those of slave traders . 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. ), Who is fundamentally right about reparations for slavery? 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. The exception is Tim Worstall, who is truly the Ron Jeremy of blogging. Inflaming the reader has no purpose relative to slavery. 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. This history of the black presence in . But you need a different approach if you dont think great-grandkids of the Confederacy are still fair game.) Sure. David Olusoga Separated from home and family and landed in the West Indies (countless numbers dying of suffocation during the journey, given that the people traffickers were packing the holds to maximise profits), the Africans had no recourse to the law, much less the conscience of their captors. By this logic, we ought to sue the African American community. (At least in our society) Get over it. They may not be happy about Dresden or Hiroshima but their lives are much better. By David Dabydeen (Photo By Alamy) Nineteen eighty-four was a transformative year for David Olusoga. But werent they lucky compared to the other Germans in Stalingrad? Not good. Sugar was king: originally a luxury, it became one of the main sources of calories for the British poor. White people are unique in ending slavery across the world*. 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. Slaves were crowded in a new environment with new diseases. David Olusoga, introduces his book Black and British, an exploration of the relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa. There is no reason to think one system was more or less brutal than the other. Whether they are too stupid to think of that remains to be seen. 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. at scales that were unusual in the long and varied history of slavery, and levels of brutality that stood out too. David Olusoga Historian, broadcaster and film-maker. That hes able to write this article is because hes living in what is, by historical standards, a remarkably tolerant society. The book accompanying. Check out the trailer for Peter Pan & Wendy, an upcoming live-action movie directed by David Lowery. Even Bill Clinton had affinity for the USA. Olusoga was born in Lagos to a White mother and a Nigerian father - who, I hate to say nautrally, did a runner. How does importing new labour from West Africa solve the food shortage in the West Indies? Black history: Should it be part of the wider curriculum? Jamaicans and Nigerians used to hate each other. Thy did not try to grow or raise the next generation. Various among the societies that were agglomerated into Nigeria were more or less involved in that slave trade from the supply end. That someone did something 200 years ago means double ought nothing.. I can then give him the details of other descendants, he can apologise to and compensate. 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