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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. Sloane witnessed and later became part of a system ruled by terror. 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). Whitey bad, give me cash? This is because forgetting slavery means forgetting its victims. 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. No one has said we should not consider someone elses viewpoint. Prof Olusoga is not the only person who has been drawn to Equiano's story. Its been banned for two centuries in Britain. But morals are very transient things. For some peculiar reason possibly because theres a section of Western society has become very insecure about its own position its being some credence. All in all your typical West African is far more likely to have ancestral connections to the slave trade than your typical Brit. That someone did something 200 years ago means double ought nothing.. (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. Probably few other societies had as much chance of buying freedom. 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.. I brought up paedophilia to demonstrate that there are things not worth my time. BZZZTT!! It can be withdrawn. Its an interesting exercise to consider, given we live within such a system, how or whether that contradiction can be settled. That someone did something 200 years ago means double ought nothing. Whether they are too stupid to think of that remains to be seen. To me personally, this is the thing. Id say theres enormous dangers in treating this as if it was some public school debating society gig. TV historian David Olusoga claims it is "palpable nonsense" to say that removing controversial statues "somehow impoverishes history". H istorian and broadcaster David Olusoga has been the face of a decolonial turn in British broadcasting that, in recent years, with series including the Bafta-winning Britain's Forgotten Slave. 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.. But werent they lucky compared to the other Germans in Stalingrad? Because it isnt about who you are, its about who your ancestors were. Looking at what happened in Haiti or Jamaica or chunks of Latin America, I dont find either well, could have been much worse or what do you expect, Early Modern West Europeans, how could they have known better? to be particularly convincing responses. The arguments do you want to get shaken down for several trillion?. That hes able to write this article is because hes living in what is, by historical standards, a remarkably tolerant society. They may not be happy about Dresden or Hiroshima but their lives are much better. Shouldnt matter whether some long-dead relative fought long ago for or against (not at all to disparage your ancestors GC, who all sound very sound) in terms of whether somethings your fault. (and white people was pretty much the British). White communities suffer huge losses from Black crime. 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. To be honest, I was a bit sceptical about the Olympics coming to London, but the atmosphere across the capital was genuinely wonderful . Although the bottom line is that no Black person remembers slavery. Needless to say they should pay us reparations for this too. The masses who once supported black freedom now campaigned for the Deep South. It's against this backdrop that Black British History Month was created. He talks about slavery because YOU care. That was at the least unusual, particularly from a West European perspective bearing in mind the practice of slavery had pretty much fizzled out there. (At least in our society) Get over it. 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. In 1787, they met in London and set up the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. But any planter who deliberately starved his slaves to death would quickly go bust. 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. 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. Between that night at the opera and 1807, nearly 800,000 Africans were enslaved. Make sure it doesnt happen in the least costly way. 2023 BBC. Its been banned for two centuries in Britain. He is a Cultural Marxist trying to destroy the West. Black and British: A Forgotten History addresses one of the greatest silences in British historiography. There is the Push argument and the Pull argument. It seems absurd to me that anyone should be concerned about what happened 200 or 500 years ago. You can pay all the reparation for historical slavery related wrongs, real or imaginary, you want. "Equiano is the most important voice that we have from the British experience of slavery and the slave trade," he said. How could Britain, a civilised and Christian nation, indulge in rape, torture, killing and the forced labour of Africans over two centuries? 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. 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. Or they may discover how little black lives do matter. You should know better. Mans a loon. Although I would expect the Germans, and perhaps even the Japanese, to be happy they lost the war. Black history: Should it be part of the wider curriculum? His choice of subject and his choice of material make that very clear. "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.". No member of my family ever owned slaves. 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. 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. 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.. They deliberately bought skewed mostly male gender balance. The New Statesmans weekly environment email on the politics, business and culture of the climate and nature crises - in your inbox every Thursday. This ignorant fellow should study historical facts, rather than believing and repeating lies and half-truths. Fuck right off As a winning debating strategy. "I have," he admits, "a habit of . Cotton was a completely different slave economy. A renowned economist has said that $12 trillion should be afforded to black Americans in reparation for slavery to help the close wealth gap.. Your email address will not be published. He was immersed in it. Sugar plantations were bad. He presents a one sided and biased picture of slavery which takes no account of the African participation in it. It is a political campaign, not a contribution to academic history. people like Olusoga would have to pay their share of the greatly increased taxes A covering letter would be a courtesy but probably not a necessity. It is a form of self-loathing. Its very noticable how nobodys mentioning that the Spanish Empire were doing this for several centuries before the British got involved. So how much have considered paedophilia? Olusoga is of half Nigerian descent. 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. Though I dont know where wed get $12 trillion in Confederate currency. I assume he is not very bright and Race Hustling is very lucrative. Thankfully the Woke have gifted us an all purpos3e response to this sort of crap. In that moment, his interest in history overlapped. 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. Olusoga poses as an objective historian and says he is not there to bring comfort to people. And they will go looking for parts of the past that aren't on the curriculum, and they evidently do. Good point, I wonder how he squares the obviously comfortable living he has writing, opining and broadcasting about slavery with his principles. The New Statesmans global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. They are stupid false for America. How does it benefit anyone to make an issue about particular events? Then the adult men became profitable too. What do you think their stongest argument is? 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. But that is not the argument I am making. I personally dont find that as convincing as the case that slaves themselves deserved compensation, and while there were strong political and practical reasons owners were compensated upon abolition but not their former slaves, it doesnt leave a great moral taste in the mouth that twas so. 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. His dad met his mom at the city's university in the 1960s. Long after he had published Corydon, his defence of pederasty. Africans had a demand for female slaves. 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. 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. 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. If one disproves his assertions would slavery then be okay? 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. 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. We do not know enough to be sure. I have a peeve about the BBC genealogical show Who do you think you are? which I dont know whether has been inflected upon the Left Pond. Like I need to hand my cash to the next lass of Rus descent I see, lest she remind me of some unlucky slave-girl that may or may not have perished at the hands of my maybe-ancestors? And yet anti-black race riots broke out in 1948 in Liverpool and in 1958 in Nottingham and Londons Notting Hill. How would Nigeria treat a foreigner like him? One of the reasons why the American and Caribbean experiences were very different. 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. There is plenty of slavery about we just do not call it that. As he states, The oral history of 20th-century racial violence has never been collected or collated, but it is thereand it is shocking.. What is their strongest argument? Nobody will stop you, honest. And the transatlantic slave trade? Instead he has become a campaigner working to discredit Britain, the country that has educated him, promoted him and brought him fame and acceptance. 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. But that ignores how the demand of outsiders led inevitably to far more supply being provided, so I dont think the traders can be given a pass on this front either. That star stuff wont last. 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 I assume these were usually killed before Europeans turned up and bought them. Olusoga was born in Lagos to a White mother and a Nigerian father - who, I hate to say nautrally, did a runner. Very little sugar on the mainland. It may not. 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. The Westman Islands of Iceland have an interesting history in terms of European slavery a major rebellion of presumably mostly Irish (Westmen) slaves was put down there in the typically brutal Scandinavian manner, hence the name, but in the 1600s the local inhabitants were themselves enslaved by Barbary pirates and taken to Algiers, from where a few were ransomed back and one wrote about the experience. Heroes of 2020 What Marcus Rashford's campaign for hungry children tells us about . Watching @worstall execute @richardjmurphy is like watching a very, very clever cat slowly killing at ataxic mouse. I think a case could be made. Would the good professor really be so different if genealogical records could prove he had African ancestors who owned African slaves? Needless to say, the national mood changed. Dr Peter Olusoga is a senior psychology lecturer at Sheffield Hallam university. ", TV historian rejects 'nonsense' over keeping statues, What Black History Month is - and why it matters. That is a strawman argument at its best. I generally reckon cant blame me, my distant relative was on your side arguments are pretty weak since relying on a doctrine of virtues of the fathers risks implicitly accepting sins of the fathers. They also ran a slave trade to the Ottoman empire and white slavery in the north without any help from Europeans. Not many remember anything about segregation either. The problem with slavery is that it left us with their descendents and weak minded White populations. Its a replay of the ecology nutters & the trannies. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Would also apply even if down a different family line there had been beneficiaries of the slave trade. 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. What difference has it made? "They were barely known even to historians. In 1796, a bill was defeated by only four votes: a group of abolitionist MPs went to the opera and missed the vote. But there have been other societies with slavery where slaves had more autonomy and a greater chance of buying their freedom. A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. It was an apt university to experiment with such developments, since Lord Scarman, who reported on the Brixton riots of 1981, was its chancellor. 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. It was far too real to her. Later his parents separated from each other when he was just two years old. Olusoga unloads all sorts of characterizations. I can then give him the details of other descendants, he can apologise to and compensate. Over 1000 years in Britain. Olusoga has benefited from and added significantly to the work of Fryer and other historians such as James Walvin. at scales that were unusual in the long and varied history of slavery, and levels of brutality that stood out too.. And Britain worked for the whole of the 19th century to put down slavery in Africa. And any reparations should be paid 50% by the African states for the areas which sold the slaves and pocketed the proceeds. It doesnt end with the parties saying Well that was pleasantly intellectually stimulating, now lets have a nice game of cricket Youre opponents are not playing by the same rules as you are. The book accompanying. White people will take it. Joining them is Psychologist and Lecturer at Lancaster University, Dr David Tod, for a fascinating conversation about the psychology of acting. David Olusoga's Family David Olusoga, age 49 was born to a Nigerian father and a British mother. 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.". This seems rather unlikely. "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. Anybody can do this. He also studied at the University of Liverpool and so benefits from slavery as much as anyone else. "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.". She wasnt interested in my academic pursuit. He is the undisputed King of the Internet Pedants and Lord of the Unnecessary Snark. Rather the constitution banned the slave trade and so it become economically worth it to make sure slaves lived longer. 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. 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. Inflaming the reader has no purpose relative to slavery. 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. 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. I learned the hard way. Obama had none. The argument isnt whether historical slavery was right or wrong or who should accept responsibility for it. 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. So my advice would be, for his own health, STFU. It may have made sense for the SS to starve labourers to death. Britain was happy to force the Bevan Boys down coal mines. 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. White people are unique in ending slavery across the world*. More than a million copies were sold in Britain cheap pirated versions reached a mass readership. I hadnt gotten far when she stopped me cold, pointing out that her best friend, a 15 year old girl knitting beside a window in her house, was machine gunned by an American P-51 pilot. You know, entirely ignoring lifetime effects? "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.". This year, return to Neverland. They are now CM scum and couldnt care less about America. Thats what I dont like about the angle of Tims header. Britain should be proud of helping to stop (African to America) slavery, like the Republican Party and unlike the Democrats. Peter completed his award-winning PhD, exploring stress and coping in elite sports coaching, at Sheffield Hallam in 2012. Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. The exception is Tim Worstall, who is truly the Ron Jeremy of blogging. Just as how in the 16th century the anti-slavery voices in Europe were overwhelmed, and in the 19th century the abolitionists won out. That is not true. Then dont discuss it. That was a bad experience but he should know that you cannot judge a whole country by what happened when he was young. 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).. TV historian David Olusoga claims it is "palpable nonsense" to say that removing controversial statues "somehow impoverishes history". They organised a boycott of sugar, produced more petitions and hosted meetings. Of course if a rule was instituted that only people with white skins had to pay taxes, it might happen. (Britain expended blood and treasure on ending the slave trade, and thereby paid its moral debt already is one way of trying to resolve it, but rather unsatisfactory at righting the wrongs done to those who had already fallen victim to the trade.) "So when black history was missing - the history of empire, the history of slavery - was missing from my history lessons, I didn't have a place to go to discover those missing chapters. The Celtic version of slavery (which ran to quite a different model) was still going on in the places the Romans didnt reach. 7 years was the average working lifespan so it is said. Exactly, bis. 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 exposure to Nigerian culture seems quite limited. 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. Even discussing it gives your opponents arguments merit. 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?. Pretty much everybody in the West is against slavery. 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. Prof Olusoga is not the only person who has been drawn to Equiano's story. If we look back history is just an unending series of atrocities. Prof Olusoga says statues, such as those of slave traders . 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? 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. Blacks like Mr Olusoga despite endlessly banging on about it seem to overlook the fact that they are in a minority. There is no reason to think that slavery was nicer in Africa. If their ancestors had remained in Africa would they be better off than they are now? If you want to pay more tax, just write a cheque to HMRC and send it off. Id say this to Mr Olusoga. He previously worked at JP Morgan for 18 years in a number of senior roles and was . My great grandfather fought to end slavery in a war. And even if you personally disagree with it, what would be the strongest argument for some form of legal settlement? Dr Peter Olusoga is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology. Would probably have taken your suggestion as a challenge. I suspect that whether records could prove it or not, its overwhelmingly likely to be true, especially since high-status individuals tend to make a bigger contribution to the gene pool. Everyone was. Grew up in Quedlinburg. Supported by African authors of slave narratives such as Olaudah Equiano and Ottabah Cugoano, they held meetings all over the country, attracting huge crowds. And the third, fourth, fifth, and so on. Note, hes a renowned economist. 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. Its entirely possible to think something was awful without feeling the slightest twinge of guilt or personal responsibility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestmannaeyjar, Slavery in England definitely continued for a couple of generations after the Norman Conquest and Bristol was a major export centre, though there were attempts to ban the export trade in particular (https://www.historytoday.com/archive/normans-and-slavery-breaking-bonds has some interesting quotes from the time). Pope Nicholas V gave his blessing, so long as the Vatican benefited. I doubt that they are now firmly united in a common cause. So there were times when food was expensive, we can call those shortages or famines. Thy did not try to grow or raise the next generation. Just how much should Olusoga receive? Certainly they killed them casually often for religious reasons. 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. It was, I believe, the first book I ever bought for myself with my own money. The rest of this looks like the usual white washing (so to speak) of African slavery. Some were sold to other African tribes and the rest kept as slaves. A newsletter showcasing the finest writing from the ideas section, covering political ideas, philosophy, criticism and intellectual history - sent every Wednesday. He was Chairman of Moneysupermarket Group from 2014 to 2019 and Senior Independent Director of Close Brothers Group plc from 2006 to 2014 and is a Past President of the Chartered Management Institute. 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