Wrong ?!?! It is a form of self-loathing. 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. It can be withdrawn. Prof Olusoga says statues, such as those of slave traders . In 1796, a bill was defeated by only four votes: a group of abolitionist MPs went to the opera and missed the vote. But maybe they did not. Will Britain change? As he states, The oral history of 20th-century racial violence has never been collected or collated, but it is thereand it is shocking.. It happened. P rofessor David Olusoga is reviewing a disorientating year from a familiar place: his white-painted study, the one with the guitars hanging from its walls. * the legal institution and pretty much the practice at scales that were unusual in the long and varied history of slavery, and levels of brutality that stood out too. 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. Thankfully the Woke have gifted us an all purpos3e response to this sort of crap. David will . My great, great, grandfather was one. How would Nigeria treat a foreigner like him? There are probably a thousand organisations, charities and assorted grifters who would happily cash your cheque. 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.". The historian and producer said he wanted to. That someone did something 200 years ago means double ought nothing. Some were sold to other African tribes and the rest kept as slaves. I assume these were usually killed before Europeans turned up and bought them. Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. 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 thing we British are ancestrally responsible for is beginning and continuing to pursue the extinction of the sordid business of slavery. The good news is that Black Lives Matter may be that trigger. Its very noticable how nobodys mentioning that the Spanish Empire were doing this for several centuries before the British got involved. Olusoga patterns his narrative after Fryers, starting with the North African presence in Roman Britain. So 10.416 were sold by the Africans every month for one hundred years, There will be no peace on this issue until black people acknowledge their own responsibility for the trade. Prof Olusoga is not the only person who has been drawn to Equiano's story. Thats why we get it. He was born in Nigeria but arrived in the . 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. Maybe someone should advise him to button his lip before he stirs up something he may not like. In 1861, the Economist stated that nearly four million people in Britain depended directly and indirectly on the cotton industry; a fifth of the entire population. 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?. This seems rather unlikely. Over 1000 years in Britain. Olusoga brilliantly reveals such contradictions in British society. However, it applies to at least 80% of Americans. Of course if a rule was instituted that only people with white skins had to pay taxes, it might happen. Dr Peter Olusoga is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology. 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. The rest of this looks like the usual white washing (so to speak) of African slavery. Certainly they killed them casually often for religious reasons. 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.. Why are these characterizations needed? In the UK its not white people enslaving blacks anymore, but Asians enslaving other Asians, as in Leicesters clothing sweatshops. 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. It is a good deed that must not go unpunished. ), Who is fundamentally right about reparations for slavery? To me personally, this is the thing. Nor do I think that sugar is worse than cotton. June 16, 2020 - 20:29 BST Aisha Nozari. And they will go looking for parts of the past that aren't on the curriculum, and they evidently do. David Olusoga Historian, broadcaster and film-maker. TV historian David Olusoga claims it is "palpable nonsense" to say that removing controversial statues "somehow impoverishes history". 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). 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. It died out with the Romans leaving, and its non-legality repeatedly reaffirmed from the reign of the early Normans onwards.. In fact he is a biased political campaigner working to attack and do as much damage to Britain as he can. I am not so sure about that although it is another argument. Should black history be taught all year round? By a Senegalese author: The veiled genocide = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxc5ENT8ajg, MyBurningEars August 30, 2020 at 11:52 am 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. Societies have what morals suit them. 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. Or they may discover how little black lives do matter. It wasnt always so & it may not be in the future. 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. White communities suffer huge losses from Black crime. 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". I am of Ulster Scot heritage, who were originally John Knoxs Cumberland Presbyterians, VERY MUCH against slavery. It built slave forts on the African coast, some such as Bunce Island in Sierra Leone furnished with a rape house. He is the undisputed King of the Internet Pedants and Lord of the Unnecessary Snark. Would probably have taken your suggestion as a challenge. 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David Olusoga is a 49-year-old historian and presenter Credit: Getty - Contributor David Olusoga is a British Nigerian historian, broadcaster and writer. Pretty much everybody in the West is against slavery. More than a million copies were sold in Britain cheap pirated versions reached a mass readership. 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. Like I said, as a mental exercise, if I do my best good faith effort to imagine an argument for reparations, I reckon it would concern harms committed by the state (which unlike the slave traders and owners, is still about today) and an argument that it breached some alleged fundamental/universal doctrine of law so that even the states efforts to put the slave industry on a legal footing were null and void. "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. The exception is Tim Worstall, who is truly the Ron Jeremy of blogging. But its still awful, even on a historical scale.. A House Through Time returned to BBC Two in May for its third season, and once again is fronted by historian extraordinaire David Olusoga. Sugar plantations were bad. Olusoga is just getting even because he was attacked by the right when he was a teenager. it was cheaper, at times, to starve people and then replace them 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. And any reparations should be paid 50% by the African states for the areas which sold the slaves and pocketed the proceeds. A weekly round-up of some of the best articles featured in the most recent issue of the New Statesman, sent each Saturday. Prof Olusoga says statues, such as those of slave traders . ", TV historian rejects 'nonsense' over keeping statues, What Black History Month is - and why it matters. Not good. His current research focuses on stress, burnout, and wellbeing in sports, with a particular interest in high-performance environments and elite coaching. 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. "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.". There is the Push argument and the Pull argument. Heroes of 2020 What Marcus Rashford's campaign for hungry children tells us about . December 2020. 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. Fuck right off As a winning debating strategy. If one disproves his assertions would slavery then be okay? The German survivors of Stalingrad were sent to camps and most of them worked to death. It costs money to replace them and after a famine the price of slaves would rise. That involved killing the adult men. As it happens, I dont believe in sins of the fathers passing down the generations. Both of these need proof. . I just dont really get what Olusoga is saying. Make sure it doesnt happen in the least costly way. No one has said we should not consider someone elses viewpoint. West Indians fought with the Allies more than a hundred were decorated. Over 1000 years in Britain. Although the bottom line is that no Black person remembers slavery. My family did nothing. Different people can argue the toss from different viewpoints and perspectives but in many ways their arguments pass each other like ships in the night, because they havent all got nobodys got an absolute frame of reference to judge things with respect to. "They do not want British history to be a catalogue of heroes and victories and glorious chapters," he says. if he wants to be an historian he should present a fair and realistic picture of what happened, Your email address will not be published. The Celtic version of slavery (which ran to quite a different model) was still going on in the places the Romans didnt reach. Olusoga unloads all sorts of characterizations. 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. 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. "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. 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. 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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. Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. The rest apart from Ireland (17, partly due to influence of aforementioned Patrick) set it younger. As a nation, we still have only a dim understanding of the slave system that funded Sloanes collecting. While I dont think they persuaded anyone, they did shift perspectives a bit. 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. 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. "The way history is viewed is changing. 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. That may have caused more violence. Id say this to Mr Olusoga. But oddly enough, people like Olusoga havent given me the cash yet. This is because forgetting slavery means forgetting its victims. Fair point. Even did something positive. Black and British: A Forgotten History addresses one of the greatest silences in British historiography. Jamaicans and Nigerians used to hate each other. I can then give him the details of other descendants, he can apologise to and compensate. 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. I cant see this one surviving people being expected to dig into their pockets for a few trillion. The Coldest Case in Laramie: yet another bleak true crime podcast, From Sophie Mackintosh to Stephen Moss: new books reviewed in short, Universal Credit falls short of covering the bare essentials. I am happy with Olusogo paying reparations to himself. Though I dont know where wed get $12 trillion in Confederate currency. So he calls himself a Geordie. So this race baiter can try his guilt trip on someone else. Like I said before, tolerance is in the gift of the powerful. @ Boganboy Cest de la trs bonne dialectique conomique. 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. David Olusoga's Family David Olusoga, age 49 was born to a Nigerian father and a British mother. "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. 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. 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. Instead the racket still goes on with endless boatloads of illegals swarming into Europe. Oblong, They included Josiah Wedgwood (the pottery entrepreneur), Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson. Shipwrecked off the coast of Africa, he, and other survivors, were taken by an African tribe as captives. 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). All in all your typical West African is far more likely to have ancestral connections to the slave trade than your typical Brit. Welsh slave-raids into England continued until early Norman times. (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.) at scales that were unusual in the long and varied history of slavery, and levels of brutality that stood out too.. That is not true. 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?). In 1986 I came across the book Staying Power by the British journalist Peter Fryer. Get back to me in seven years, when youre ready to order. Anti-black riots broke out in Liverpool that year. How does it benefit anyone to make an issue about particular events? "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.". 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. You can pay all the reparation for historical slavery related wrongs, real or imaginary, you want. The New Statesmans global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. History is just one awful thing after another. 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. Peter Olusoga. You dont have esoteric discussions with paedophiles any more than you would with serial killers. Supported by African authors of slave narratives such as Olaudah Equiano and Ottabah Cugoano, they held meetings all over the country, attracting huge crowds. Everyone was. Grew up in Quedlinburg. This history of the black presence in . is that the extra demand distorted the market, led directly to more armed slave-raiding expeditions against rival tribes and so on.. And even if you personally disagree with it, what would be the strongest argument for some form of legal settlement? "The phenomena of which he is iconic is one that we have written out, edited out of our nation. He previously worked at JP Morgan for 18 years in a number of senior roles and was . 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? Its entirely possible to think something was awful without feeling the slightest twinge of guilt or personal responsibility. Later his parents separated from each other when he was just two years old. And yet anti-black race riots broke out in 1948 in Liverpool and in 1958 in Nottingham and Londons Notting Hill. Perhaps Im a bit more culturally relativist these days, but just read it again, still absolutely awful. Forbes magazine's extraordinarily arrogant contributor Tim Worstall Jeremy Corbyn. If you want to pay more tax, just write a cheque to HMRC and send it off. Blacks like Mr Olusoga despite endlessly banging on about it seem to overlook the fact that they are in a minority. 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. Youre right, MBE. When Olusoga recalled the experience before television cameras last year, he wept. "He was the voice of somebody who wasn't speaking about the past as a historian, but was living it. 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. Needless to say, the national mood changed. Its been banned for two centuries in Britain. They have a game plan & youre falling for it. 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. I assume he is not very bright and Race Hustling is very lucrative. Davids all done. Abolition was the first mass philanthropic movement in Britain, and it ended the slave trade in 1807. Its a replay of the ecology nutters & the trannies. 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. I have that estimate saved and ready to be critiqued as part of a larger project. David Olusoga, 49, is a television presenter and historian. People seem pretty much agreed on what is right and what is wrong. How does importing new labour from West Africa solve the food shortage in the West Indies? Sugar was king: originally a luxury, it became one of the main sources of calories for the British poor. (and white people was pretty much the British). 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. 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? Such sources give his writing freshness, originality and compassion. "They were barely known even to historians. I had a girlfriend whose mother was a Nazi. Olusoga has benefited from and added significantly to the work of Fryer and other historians such as James Walvin. Hundreds of White women raped every day. Had a vault for the more inflammatory pieces. 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