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. The best and brightest minds in the UK defended Stalins slavery. So he calls himself a Geordie. It could have ended earlier, but the planter interests in parliament defeated William Wilberforces attempts. Ill disparage them. As a nation, we still have only a dim understanding of the slave system that funded Sloanes collecting. Prof Olusoga is not the only person who has been drawn to Equiano's story. The race obsessed Department of Education goes to considerable lengths to distinguish Caribbeans and West Africans. So how much have considered paedophilia? Dr Peter Olusoga is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology. This ignorant fellow should study historical facts, rather than believing and repeating lies and half-truths. A renowned economist has said that $12 trillion should be afforded to black Americans in reparation for slavery to help the close wealth gap.. Although I would expect the Germans, and perhaps even the Japanese, to be happy they lost the war. The rest apart from Ireland (17, partly due to influence of aforementioned Patrick) set it younger. His current research focuses on stress, burnout, and wellbeing in sports, with a particular interest in high-performance environments and elite coaching. To me personally, this is the thing. 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. No other race / culture was willing and able to do that. 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. Olusoga was born in Lagos to a White mother and a Nigerian father - who, I hate to say nautrally, did a runner. Long after he had published Corydon, his defence of pederasty. Olusoga is just getting even because he was attacked by the right when he was a teenager. The Celtic version of slavery (which ran to quite a different model) was still going on in the places the Romans didnt reach. Its a shame TV presenter David Olusoga has told the Edinburgh TV Festival his career had sometimes left him feeling "crushed, isolated," and "disempowered". My great grandfather fought to end slavery in a war. What has Nigeria ever done for him? As it happens, I dont believe in sins of the fathers passing down the generations. They did not care much for adult males. 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. But its still awful, even on a historical scale.. 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. Which of those societies does Olusogas ancestry come from? We do not know how great the demand for women was. Note, hes a renowned economist. I cant see this one surviving people being expected to dig into their pockets for a few trillion. Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. I cant see the point of denying it was all pretty awful. What has he got to say about that? But Muslims were enslaving white Europeans into Africa long before the Atlantic route, usually castrating the males. is that the extra demand distorted the market, led directly to more armed slave-raiding expeditions against rival tribes and so on.. Ironically, one of the sources we can turn to in order to learn more is his own accounts of late 17th-century Jamaica. June 16, 2020 - 20:29 BST Aisha Nozari. His dad met his mom at the city's university in the 1960s. How does importing new labour from West Africa solve the food shortage in the West Indies? 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. A newsletter showcasing the finest writing from the ideas section, covering political ideas, philosophy, criticism and intellectual history - sent every Wednesday. Tull played professional football for Northampton but instead of signing up for Glasgow Rangers, he enlisted. Supported by African authors of slave narratives such as Olaudah Equiano and Ottabah Cugoano, they held meetings all over the country, attracting huge crowds. But any planter who deliberately starved his slaves to death would quickly go bust. 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. I was doing some genealogy research when I discovered my great grandfather was a well known member of the 18th Kentucky Infantry. And, of course, being half white, he is only entitled to half the reparation payment. David Olusoga Historian, broadcaster and film-maker. I agree BIS. 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. Maybe someone should advise him to button his lip before he stirs up something he may not like. Welsh slave-raids into England continued until early Norman times. December 2020. The enslaved Africans had to wait another five years for their freedom and were not given a penny. This is indeed tu quoque. 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 havent said anything about my personal sense of guilt or responsibility. 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. 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? 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. Then the second. 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. They are now CM scum and couldnt care less about America. ), Who is fundamentally right about reparations for slavery? 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. That hes able to write this article is because hes living in what is, by historical standards, a remarkably tolerant society. I do not see what is different between a plantation in Africa and a plantation in Virginia. And, of course, being half white, he is only entitled to half the reparation payment. Nor do I think that sugar is worse than cotton. One sporting event that has captured your imagination I was fortunate enough to get tickets to see some of the basketball at the London 2012 Olympics, so my brother and I went to watch the GB vs. Spain game. David Olusoga A House Through Time returned to BBC Two in May for its third season, and once again is fronted by historian extraordinaire David Olusoga. To be honest, I was a bit sceptical about the Olympics coming to London, but the atmosphere across the capital was genuinely wonderful . 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. Have you ever read the account by Ibn Fadlan of a Viking funeral in Russia? 7 years was the average working lifespan so it is said. We do not know enough to be sure. Its been banned for two centuries in Britain. 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? The German survivors of Stalingrad were sent to camps and most of them worked to death. In the late 1800's and early 1900's, 30,000 Jewish migrants from Russia and Eastern Europe settled in Manchester. The people in Portland, Seattle and Kenosha are too decadent to fight back. But that ignores how the demand of outsiders led inevitably to far more supply being provided. 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.. Anglo-Saxons had slaves. The answer is money. He talks about slavery because YOU care. In the 15th and 16th centuries, thousands of pounds of gold were shipped to Europe. Olusoga is making an appeal to white guilt. But oddly enough, people like Olusoga havent given me the cash yet. Peter Pan & Wendy is a live-action reimagining of the J.M . The world has seen more slavery since its abolition than before. "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.". "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. Although the bottom line is that no Black person remembers slavery. Cotton was a completely different slave economy. ", TV historian rejects 'nonsense' over keeping statues, What Black History Month is - and why it matters. Thy did not try to grow or raise the next generation. Not good. For almost 60 years, there was impasse. (At least in our society) Get over it. 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. There is no reason to single White people out for unique levels of criticism. I assume he is not very bright and Race Hustling is very lucrative. Married an American GI after the war. 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. 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. Pretty much everybody in the West is against slavery. Kyle Rittenhouse, unlike the rest of their sorry asses, did something. First launched in London in 1987, it aims to highlight and celebrate what black people have achieved in Britain throughout history. His exposure to Nigerian culture seems quite limited. I think it's an astonishing achievement.". TV historian David Olusoga claims it is "palpable nonsense" to say that removing controversial statues "somehow impoverishes history". 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. "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. The system he witnessed and wrote about was one in which human beings were worked to death. 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). He presents a one sided and biased picture of slavery which takes no account of the African participation in it. White communities suffer huge losses from Black crime. The publication in 1852 of Uncle Toms Cabin, by the American abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, swelled national sympathy for the plight of black slaves. Both groups today, especially the former, could reasonably claim historic persecution has reduced their present income and wealth. Later his parents separated from each other when he was just two years old. It is a form of self-loathing. That was when the Democrats were still Americans. Fired by religious feeling, they embarked on a campaign of public education and political lobbying unprecedented in scale and revolutionary in nature. He previously worked at JP Morgan for 18 years in a number of senior roles and was . Britain should be proud of helping to stop (African to America) slavery, like the Republican Party and unlike the Democrats. As for the future, the University of Manchester professor says younger generations give him hope. If we look back history is just an unending series of atrocities. 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. 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? That is not true. 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. They have a game plan & youre falling for it. She wasnt interested in my academic pursuit. Definitely didnt die out with the Romans. Yet American slave-produced raw cotton continued to feed the 4,500 mills of Lancashire. 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. Guess wed have to print it. 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).. 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.. Video, 00:02:30Should black history be taught all year round? It is a good deed that must not go unpunished. I just dont really get what Olusoga is saying. David will . He was a prominent figure in the campaign to abolish slavery. 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. "The way history is viewed is changing. In 1860, cotton goods accounted for 40 per cent of all British exports. 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 . 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. He is a Cultural Marxist trying to destroy the West. Was never entirely sure which bits were believed and which bits were just a fun bit of intellectual muscle-flexing couldnt all have been intended seriously since so many posts contradicted each other. There are probably a thousand organisations, charities and assorted grifters who would happily cash your cheque. The evidence of this is that seasoned slaves, those exposed to the environment, sold for up to 50% more than new ones. Forbes magazine's extraordinarily arrogant contributor Tim Worstall Jeremy Corbyn. They all get it from White people inciting violence. If the alternative was that they were killed? It could not have happened at all unless African traders and kings had offered slaves to the Europeans. It may not. Davids all done. That someone did something 200 years ago means double ought nothing. But werent they lucky compared to the other Germans in Stalingrad? Latin America for instance. He presented the recent series of A House Through Time on BBC 2, and Black and British: A Forgotten History. 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 there were African states with legal continuity to those political entities which established and encouraged the African slave markets, they would be on the hook too, but theres a discontinuity due to colonialism and besides, everyone knows to sue the rich guy not the poor guy. From Roots. 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. In 1787, they met in London and set up the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. 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. But that is not the argument I am making. 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). (If the likes of SMFS believe Western society will fall apart without a return to traditional Christian-inspired values, I suggest they either don a pessimists crash-helmet or just cling on and enjoy the ride to Hell in their top-gear handcart. Such sources give his writing freshness, originality and compassion. Thats why we get it. 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. The details of difference are fairly minor. 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). So is Richard Murphy. Will Britain change? Fuck right off As a winning debating strategy. Macmillan, 624pp, 25, David Dabydeen is a novelist, broadcaster, academic and co-editor of The Oxford Companion to Black British History (Oxford University Press), This article appears in the 16 Aug 2017 issue of the New Statesman, Trump goes nuclear, Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics. Might, in this case, being 100% of the debating point. 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? The argument isnt whether historical slavery was right or wrong or who should accept responsibility for it. Id say theres enormous dangers in treating this as if it was some public school debating society gig. But slaves were more valuable, so the British fought the Spanish for a share in the trade and eventually came to dominate it. Societies have what morals suit them. The strongest argument I can see for reparations is not that white people bear some kind of ancestral blame. The New Statesmans global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. Id say this to Mr Olusoga. I brought up paedophilia to demonstrate that there are things not worth my time. 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. 2023 BBC. 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. People seem pretty much agreed on what is right and what is wrong. It died out with the Romans leaving, and its non-legality repeatedly reaffirmed from the reign of the early Normans onwards. If you want to pay more tax, just write a cheque to HMRC and send it off. Though I dont know where wed get $12 trillion in Confederate currency. Olusoga unloads all sorts of characterizations. Should black history be taught all year round? How could Britain, a civilised and Christian nation, indulge in rape, torture, killing and the forced labour of Africans over two centuries? 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. TV historian David Olusoga claims it is "palpable nonsense" to say that removing controversial statues "somehow impoverishes history". Sure. Get back to us when your sin/privilege is expunged. It's against this backdrop that Black British History Month was created. Pope Nicholas V gave his blessing, so long as the Vatican benefited. 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. Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade is part of the national curriculum, although it is not statutory. 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. 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". It may have made sense for the SS to starve labourers to death. Because it isnt about who you are, its about who your ancestors were. Blacks like Mr Olusoga despite endlessly banging on about it seem to overlook the fact that they are in a minority. I know. Or they may discover how little black lives do matter. Black and British: A Forgotten History I am of Ulster Scot heritage, who were originally John Knoxs Cumberland Presbyterians, VERY MUCH against slavery. I doubt that they are now firmly united in a common cause. There is no reason to single White people out for unique levels of criticism. But maybe they did not. 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 patterns his narrative after Fryers, starting with the North African presence in Roman Britain. 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. But a group of 12 disciples of Christ set out to change things. But there have been other societies with slavery where slaves had more autonomy and a greater chance of buying their freedom. . After all, adult males were all but worthless and demand for women might have been enough to drive the trade anyway. A fifty quid note in the hand of the first black bloke you encounter. Instead the racket still goes on with endless boatloads of illegals swarming into Europe. 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. Just how much should Olusoga receive? Over 1000 years in Britain. And any reparations should be paid 50% by the African states for the areas which sold the slaves and pocketed the proceeds. Its very noticable how nobodys mentioning that the Spanish Empire were doing this for several centuries before the British got involved. While I dont think they persuaded anyone, they did shift perspectives a bit. I had a girlfriend whose mother was a Nazi. It was, I believe, the first book I ever bought for myself with my own money. For some peculiar reason possibly because theres a section of Western society has become very insecure about its own position its being some credence. 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. Nobody will stop you, honest. . White people are unique in ending slavery across the world*. Olusoga is of half Nigerian descent. Slaves were crowded in a new environment with new diseases. No one has said we should not consider someone elses viewpoint. It built slave forts on the African coast, some such as Bunce Island in Sierra Leone furnished with a rape house. I assume these were usually killed before Europeans turned up and bought them. When I met her, ~1995, I started asking her questions about the war, as I thought she was a fabulous resource of information. "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. Rather the constitution banned the slave trade and so it become economically worth it to make sure slaves lived longer. 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. David Olusoga, introduces his book Black and British, an exploration of the relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa. At the moment it seems to regarded as a good thing. 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