I do not see what is different between a plantation in Africa and a plantation in Virginia. "I first read it as a student and it struck me as something that was very different to other things I was reading about the Atlantic slave trade. That involved killing the adult men. This is a moral argument. That someone did something 200 years ago means double ought nothing.. It was such a brilliantly organised programme of mass protest that slavery was declared abolished in 1833: 46,000 slave owners were given 20m in compensation (17bn in todays money), the largest payout in British history and 40 per cent of all government spending that year. 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. Supported by African authors of slave narratives such as Olaudah Equiano and Ottabah Cugoano, they held meetings all over the country, attracting huge crowds. There is no reason to single White people out for unique levels of criticism. Get back to us when your sin/privilege is expunged. I imagine few do. Not to say it was nice.. Its entirely possible to think something was awful without feeling the slightest twinge of guilt or personal responsibility. The Benin Dialogue Group announced it had brokered an agreement that will see "some of the most iconic" of the bronzes returned to Benin City, Nigeria, where they will be housed in the soon-to-be-built Benin Royal Museum. "I don't know why this generation has a different relationship with the past, goes to the past, expecting and looking for different things to earlier generations, but that's really is my observation about them," he says adding the internet has played a huge part. people like Olusoga would have to pay their share of the greatly increased taxes Pretty much everybody in the West is against slavery. Anybody can do this. Probably few other societies had as much chance of buying freedom. 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. "They do not want British history to be a catalogue of heroes and victories and glorious chapters," he says. Between that night at the opera and 1807, nearly 800,000 Africans were enslaved. 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. 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. (Im just presenting the case here in reality there are obviously some big questions about the logic of Nuremberg etc, just as there are questions about how judges in Common Law occasionally summon up things as if they had always and forever been a part of the Law, albeit previously unrecorded, rather than something the judge just made up.). 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. 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. The best and brightest minds in the UK defended Stalins slavery. That is a strawman argument at its best. Pretty sure if you could, implausibly, trace my family tree through various not-very-literate eras youd pass through at least one Anglo-Saxon who owned a bunch of Britons. 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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. 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. Or anything to do with slavery. Sure. "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.". 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. It began to alter (slightly) the history curriculum at university level: the first undergraduate one-year course on black British history and culture was taught at the University of Warwick in 1984. One of his teachers had a coffee mug bearing a National Front slogan and another attacked him during a school trip, he said. Maybe Europeans did increase demand. In 1986 I came across the book Staying Power by the British journalist Peter Fryer. Video, 00:02:30. Would the good professor really be so different if genealogical records could prove he had African ancestors who owned African slaves? "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. Id say this to Mr Olusoga. White people will take it. December 2020. Dont know if I would rule it out entirely because the demographics are different but it might need a change in the voting dynamics. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Even Bill Clinton had affinity for the USA. 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. A House Through Time returned to BBC Two in May for its third season, and once again is fronted by historian extraordinaire David Olusoga. Id agree that attitudes in the UK are approaching that situation, but theres still a long, long way to go yet. And they will go looking for parts of the past that aren't on the curriculum, and they evidently do. I learned the hard way. Why are these characterizations needed? Hes insisting that a household headed by a 21 year old black should have the average wealth of all white households. The problem with slavery is that it left us with their descendents and weak minded White populations. No doubt life expectancy of a slave was shorter than that for a free man. 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. Peter completed his award-winning PhD, exploring stress and coping in elite sports coaching, at Sheffield Hallam in 2012. Note, hes a renowned economist. We pretend we do not like slavery but actually we do not like slave traders. 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. Have you ever read the account by Ibn Fadlan of a Viking funeral in Russia? Nobody will stop you, honest. 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. Its an interesting exercise to consider, given we live within such a system, how or whether that contradiction can be settled. at scales that were unusual in the long and varied history of slavery, and levels of brutality that stood out too. 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. The rest apart from Ireland (17, partly due to influence of aforementioned Patrick) set it younger. Everyone was. Grew up in Quedlinburg. I was uncomfortable using it. 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. We are told that an estimated 12.5 million slaves were shipped from Africa to the West Indies and elsewhere in the 18th century. Although I would expect the Germans, and perhaps even the Japanese, to be happy they lost the war. It was an apt university to experiment with such developments, since Lord Scarman, who reported on the Brixton riots of 1981, was its chancellor. Well one economist has worked out the amount to be paid (although not on a damages basis, when one imagines blacks might end up paying whites, but on a close the wealth gap basis): A renowned economist has said that $12 trillion should be afforded to black Americans in reparation for slavery to help the close wealth gap. Though I dont know where wed get $12 trillion in Confederate currency. Should almost go without saying except of course that it doesnt, since clearly not every culture has the same moral gut reaction to it that I do. They may have been turning people they would have killed into a profitable commodity. Their cities, as well as their comfort, will rapidly decay. Country Star Kacey Musgraves: Voting for Trump Is an Act of Violence. David Olusoga Historian, broadcaster and film-maker. So he calls himself a Geordie. Blacks like Mr Olusoga despite endlessly banging on about it seem to overlook the fact that they are in a minority. 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 thing we British are ancestrally responsible for is beginning and continuing to pursue the extinction of the sordid business of slavery. Dr Peter Olusoga is a senior psychology lecturer at Sheffield Hallam university. Its been banned for two centuries in Britain. 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. What do you think their stongest argument is? 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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). (At least in our society) Get over it. Instead the racket still goes on with endless boatloads of illegals swarming into Europe. Peter Pan & Wendy is a live-action reimagining of the J.M . I am of Ulster Scot heritage, who were originally John Knoxs Cumberland Presbyterians, VERY MUCH against slavery. The historian tells Michael Segalov about getting up early, reading George Orwell, taking his dog George for a walk, playing his guitar It died out with the Romans leaving, and its non-legality repeatedly reaffirmed from the reign of the early Normans onwards. Over 1000 years in Britain. 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. 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. And yet anti-black race riots broke out in 1948 in Liverpool and in 1958 in Nottingham and Londons Notting Hill. Cheap ass presentism. The evidence of this is that seasoned slaves, those exposed to the environment, sold for up to 50% more than new ones. What has he got to say about that? Anglo-Saxons had slaves. There is no reason to single White people out for unique levels of criticism. I dont think the traders can be given a pass on this front either., Just means they werent alone in being in the wrong.. Britain should be proud of helping to stop (African to America) slavery, like the Republican Party and unlike the Democrats. 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. Black history: Should it be part of the wider curriculum? MBE, do not entertain these people, not for one second. I have done nothing. And, of course, being half white, he is only entitled to half the reparation payment. 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. But slaves were more valuable, so the British fought the Spanish for a share in the trade and eventually came to dominate it. From Roots. 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. 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? Black and British: A Forgotten History addresses one of the greatest silences in British historiography. They deliberately bought skewed mostly male gender balance. There is no reason to think that slavery was nicer in Africa. I assume these were usually killed before Europeans turned up and bought them. 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. Obama had none. Prof Olusoga, the presenter of the A House Through Time TV series, calls it an act of "historical salvage" to bring to the fore the black British figures who had been "lost in the archives, completely forgotten". That was when the Democrats were still Americans. Olusoga is of half Nigerian descent. 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. But that is not the argument I am making. 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. In the late 1800's and early 1900's, 30,000 Jewish migrants from Russia and Eastern Europe settled in Manchester. So how much have considered paedophilia? You can pay all the reparation for historical slavery related wrongs, real or imaginary, you want. The Royal African Company, established by Charles II in 1672, eventually enslaved and transported more Africans than any other company in British history. Sugar plantations were bad. Might, in this case, being 100% of the debating point. Id say the same to the Black Lives Matter people. Their demands should simply be refused. If more African-Americans started to vote Republican and the Democrats felt they needed something radical to boost their offer, and had enough support from liberal whites and other groups to risk further losses among blue-collar whites, for example. To me personally, this is the thing. And the Domesday Book even counts slaves as a separate category below the unfree peasants (villans, bordars and cottars) those owed service to a Lord who could order them to move about and could say yes or no to their proposed marriages, but unlike slaves he didnt own them, couldnt sell them, and they had property rights to at least a smallholding. A weekly round-up of some of the best articles featured in the most recent issue of the New Statesman, sent each Saturday. The vast majority of Americans are not guilty. We do not know how great the demand for women was. Definitely didnt die out with the Romans. "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. It was far too real to her. Societies have what morals suit them. I just dont really get what Olusoga is saying. So there were times when food was expensive, we can call those shortages or famines. 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).. 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. Thats fine, BraveFart. it was cheaper, at times, to starve people and then replace them Would also apply even if down a different family line there had been beneficiaries of the slave trade. 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.". Olusoga brilliantly reveals such contradictions in British society. But morals are very transient things. His dad met his mom at the city's university in the 1960s. "The phenomena of which he is iconic is one that we have written out, edited out of our nation. Olusoga is making an appeal to white guilt. Tim says there might be some truth to them for the Caribbean. 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. The Barbados slave code of 1661 stripped Africans of all human rights, and set out ways in which they were to be punished, to exert control over their labour (mutilation of the face, slitting of nostrils, castration, execution). "He was the voice of somebody who wasn't speaking about the past as a historian, but was living it. When I met her, ~1995, I started asking her questions about the war, as I thought she was a fabulous resource of information. Well whats the point of pretending it doesnt also induce moral disgust in me, just in case someone mistakes it for guilt, or an admission of liability? Surely the US has already spent much more than that on black Americans. How does it benefit anyone to make an issue about particular events? What would happen to that money, who knows, but as its (or was) your money, thats between you and your grifter of choice. Which of those societies does Olusogas ancestry come from? His rhetoric is to inflame the reader. I know. Whitey bad, give me cash? Flyover Americans arent going to take it. 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. Abolition was the first mass philanthropic movement in Britain, and it ended the slave trade in 1807. Theres an argument about judging people by the standard of their times, though even in the 1500s moral and religious objections to the slave trade had been made and the rationale of crimes against humanity is that some things are so abhorrent they could never truly be legal no matter what moral code the perpetrators justified themselves with. "They were barely known even to historians. 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. Sugar was king: originally a luxury, it became one of the main sources of calories for the British poor. Should black history be taught all year round? 7 years was the average working lifespan so it is said. 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 But maybe they did not. Societies have had a long history of treating minorities harshly. He was immersed in it. Anyway, I digress, we did have at some point, a gang of pedos turn up and put their case, reasonably, and were tolerated and conversed with. Nineteen eighty-four was a transformative year for David Olusoga. Get back to me in seven years, when youre ready to order. If black lives really mattered these people would be protesting the 500 shot dead so far by predominantly black men in Chicago this year. They organised a boycott of sugar, produced more petitions and hosted meetings. So this race baiter can try his guilt trip on someone else. I brought up paedophilia to demonstrate that there are things not worth my time. 1894 shipwreck confirms tale of treacherous lifeboat. 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. She wasnt interested in my academic pursuit. But there have been other societies with slavery where slaves had more autonomy and a greater chance of buying their freedom. My great grandfather fought to end slavery in a war. They also ran a slave trade to the Ottoman empire and white slavery in the north without any help from Europeans. Indeed, third-century York may have been more ethnically and racially diverse than present-day York. My family did nothing. Then the adult men became profitable too. In that moment, his interest in history overlapped. The book accompanying. 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. Not to say it was nice. At the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, Britain was granted the right to supply slaves to the Spanish colonies in the Americas, a right then passed on to the South Sea Company. The system he witnessed and wrote about was one in which human beings were worked to death. The historian and producer said he wanted to. To be honest, I was a bit sceptical about the Olympics coming to London, but the atmosphere across the capital was genuinely wonderful . My first reaction, years and years ago, was thats awful. 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. 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. They may not be happy about Dresden or Hiroshima but their lives are much better. It could have ended earlier, but the planter interests in parliament defeated William Wilberforces attempts. His exposure to Nigerian culture seems quite limited. is that the extra demand distorted the market, led directly to more armed slave-raiding expeditions against rival tribes and so on.. 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