A covering letter would be a courtesy but probably not a necessity. 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. 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. I think it's an astonishing achievement.". I was uncomfortable using it. 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 world has seen more slavery since its abolition than before. The exception is Tim Worstall, who is truly the Ron Jeremy of blogging. But it is also likely that disease played a role. Prof Olusoga is not the only person who has been drawn to Equiano's story. 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. It died out with the Romans leaving, and its non-legality repeatedly reaffirmed from the reign of the early Normans onwards. Its very noticable how nobodys mentioning that the Spanish Empire were doing this for several centuries before the British got involved. 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. David Olusoga, 49, is a television presenter and historian. Just as how in the 16th century the anti-slavery voices in Europe were overwhelmed, and in the 19th century the abolitionists won out. You know, entirely ignoring lifetime effects? Both of these need proof. 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. The thing we British are ancestrally responsible for is beginning and continuing to pursue the extinction of the sordid business of slavery. Married an American GI after the war. Its an interesting exercise to consider, given we live within such a system, how or whether that contradiction can be settled. Like I said before, tolerance is in the gift of the powerful. Its extraordinary success rested upon the foundation of sympathy laid down during the previous 70 years of abolitionist activity in Britain. The evidence of this is that seasoned slaves, those exposed to the environment, sold for up to 50% more than new ones. 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. And he might not find the society withdraws it nearly as comfortable for him to live in. I imagine few do. The argument isnt whether historical slavery was right or wrong or who should accept responsibility for it. Reasonable estimates have some 50% of the inhabitants of the Sokoto Caliphate as late as the late 19th cent being slaves. 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. 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. Fought to STOP southern independence. It built slave forts on the African coast, some such as Bunce Island in Sierra Leone furnished with a rape house. As he states, The oral history of 20th-century racial violence has never been collected or collated, but it is thereand it is shocking.. Cotton was a completely different slave economy. Have you ever read the account by Ibn Fadlan of a Viking funeral in Russia? And yet Africans and West Indians were banned from the victory parade in 1919. She had no interest in esoteric discussions of the war. Video, 1894 shipwreck confirms tale of treacherous lifeboat, BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3: The Meaning of Zong, BBC Bitesize: The Zong 1781-1783 - The triangular trade, during a debate on Black History and Cultural Diversity in the Curriculum, Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Explosive found in check-in luggage at US airport, Fungus case forces Jack Daniels to halt construction, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, Fire knocks out half of Argentina's power grid, Havana Syndrome unlikely to have hostile cause - US, Starbucks illegally fired workers over union - judge. "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. Wrong ?!?! at scales that were unusual in the long and varied history of slavery, and levels of brutality that stood out too. Prof Olusoga is not the only person who has been drawn to Equiano's story. Tull played professional football for Northampton but instead of signing up for Glasgow Rangers, he enlisted. If black lives really mattered these people would be protesting the 500 shot dead so far by predominantly black men in Chicago this year. Thankfully the Woke have gifted us an all purpos3e response to this sort of crap. It may not. Black and British: A Forgotten History The vast majority of Americans are not guilty. 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). Sloane witnessed and later became part of a system ruled by terror. By David Dabydeen (Photo By Alamy) Nineteen eighty-four was a transformative year for David Olusoga. After all, adult males were all but worthless and demand for women might have been enough to drive the trade anyway. Might, in this case, being 100% of the debating point. In America few were castrated, which is why there are now >40 million descendants there. Like the Nigerian slavers who enslaved and sold the slaves, you mean? The strongest argument I can see for reparations is not that white people bear some kind of ancestral blame. 2023 BBC. 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. 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). Welsh slave-raids into England continued until early Norman times. At the moment it seems to regarded as a good thing. This seems rather unlikely. 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. 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. Writing in english is cultural appropriation so STFU. The race obsessed Department of Education goes to considerable lengths to distinguish Caribbeans and West Africans. There are probably a thousand organisations, charities and assorted grifters who would happily cash your cheque. Should black history be taught all year round? Even discussing it gives your opponents arguments merit. Sooner or later, we whites are going to have to take a stand, and say we aint taking this any more. 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. 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. 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. 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. ), Who is fundamentally right about reparations for slavery? But oddly enough, people like Olusoga havent given me the cash yet. Black history: Should it be part of the wider curriculum? Indeed in many cases, whose ancestors didnt even live in France or England at the relevant time. 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).. It was, I believe, the first book I ever bought for myself with my own money. 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. How does importing new labour from West Africa solve the food shortage in the West Indies? 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. 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? Prof Olusoga says statues, such as those of slave traders . Even did something positive. Will Britain change? 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. "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. Not sure how sick this makes me. (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. 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. The system he witnessed and wrote about was one in which human beings were worked to death. Then the adult men became profitable too. Viking Dublin was a major slave-trading centre (English, Irish, Scots, anyone else they could get their hands on). 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.. Olusoga patterns his narrative after Fryers, starting with the North African presence in Roman Britain. Anybody can do this. No doubt life expectancy of a slave was shorter than that for a free man. MBE: The problem with the UK paying reparations is that people like Olusoga would have to pay their share of the greatly increased taxes. Its a replay of the ecology nutters & the trannies. Just how much should Olusoga receive? My argument is that Africans were probably happily killing each other for women before the West turned up. Indeed, third-century York may have been more ethnically and racially diverse than present-day York. Country Star Kacey Musgraves: Voting for Trump Is an Act of Violence. His dad met his mom at the city's university in the 1960s. Though I dont know where wed get $12 trillion in Confederate currency. 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 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. But there have been other societies with slavery where slaves had more autonomy and a greater chance of buying their freedom. 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 can be redeemed, you worthless pasty people. You should know better. What has Nigeria ever done for him? Re putting the argument for paedophilia they actually gave Gide the Nobel prize for literature didnt they? And any reparations should be paid 50% by the African states for the areas which sold the slaves and pocketed the proceeds. 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? No member of my family ever owned slaves. The many African-American abolitionists, such as Frederick Douglass, who visited Britain from the 1840s onwards, were well received and, again, thousands of people greeted them and raised money to support their cause. "They were barely known even to historians. MyBurningEars August 30, 2020 at 3:31 pm Deliberately shipping that many people that far in order to participate in a newly-created society whose economic system was designed, pretty much from the ground up, around slave labour?, True that unlike certain other examples of slavery, you werent likely to be killed as part of a religious sacrifice or as part of your owners funeral., But there have been other societies with slavery where slaves had more autonomy and a greater chance of buying their freedom.. They also ran a slave trade to the Ottoman empire and white slavery in the north without any help from Europeans. It could have ended earlier, but the planter interests in parliament defeated William Wilberforces attempts. 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. A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. Instead the racket still goes on with endless boatloads of illegals swarming into Europe. Over 1000 years in Britain. Mans a loon. Olusoga is of half Nigerian descent. We pretend we do not like slavery but actually we do not like slave traders. (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.) 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. Fair point. 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. Thats why we get it. He also studied at the University of Liverpool and so benefits from slavery as much as anyone else. Make sure it doesnt happen in the least costly way. "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. 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. Would probably have taken your suggestion as a challenge. The problem with slavery is that it left us with their descendents and weak minded White populations. The publication in 1852 of Uncle Toms Cabin, by the American abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, swelled national sympathy for the plight of black slaves. Perhaps Im a bit more culturally relativist these days, but just read it again, still absolutely awful. It happened. The book accompanying. Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade is part of the national curriculum, although it is not statutory. 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. Moreover its arguably unjust that only victims of still-extant states have a route to compensation whereas people from ethnic groups roughly contemporaneously massacred, enslaved and sacrificed by the Aztec Empire have nobody to sue. . If the alternative was that they were killed? All in all your typical West African is far more likely to have ancestral connections to the slave trade than your typical Brit. "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.". His exposure to Nigerian culture seems quite limited. I just dont really get what Olusoga is saying. 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. 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.". 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. I am of Ulster Scot heritage, who were originally John Knoxs Cumberland Presbyterians, VERY MUCH against slavery. 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. So he calls himself a Geordie. As it happens, I dont believe in sins of the fathers passing down the generations. That assumes an increase in demand. 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. Slavery is bad or it isnt. They arent going to concede anything. Thats why when the question is raised, I always point out that they owe me lots and lots of money. If we look back history is just an unending series of atrocities. In fact he is a biased political campaigner working to attack and do as much damage to Britain as he can. He was immersed in it. 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. (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. I cant see the point of denying it was all pretty awful. Shouldnt Olusoga be writing in Ubangi bantu-language? Forbes magazine's extraordinarily arrogant contributor Tim Worstall Jeremy Corbyn. 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. The New Statesmans global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. I havent said anything about my personal sense of guilt or responsibility. The Russians do not have these problems because they are not ashamed. 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. The good news is that Black Lives Matter may be that trigger. I had a girlfriend whose mother was a Nazi. TV presenter David Olusoga has told the Edinburgh TV Festival his career had sometimes left him feeling "crushed, isolated," and "disempowered". It died out with the Romans leaving, and its non-legality repeatedly reaffirmed from the reign of the early Normans onwards.. "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. Nineteen eighty-four affected him in another way: the publication of Peter Fryers groundbreaking Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain introduced him to the scholarship needed to understand his position in Britain. MBE, do not entertain these people, not for one second. "I have," he admits, "a habit of . Then, in October, came a breakthrough. Olusoga unloads all sorts of characterizations. The Sokoto Caliphate probably had as many slaves and a lot fewer free men as the Old South. 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. There is no reason to think that slavery was nicer in Africa. 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.. 1894 shipwreck confirms tale of treacherous lifeboat. How would Nigeria treat a foreigner like him? For some peculiar reason possibly because theres a section of Western society has become very insecure about its own position its being some credence. 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. Certainly they killed them casually often for religious reasons. You lost those two. I still find arguing the toss, or watching others doing so, interesting partly because it shows how the viewpoints are divergent, how many arguments are self-interested, what social, cultural and economic forces are at work behind it all. 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. people like Olusoga would have to pay their share of the greatly increased taxes Yet theyre so many centuries and generations removed from the crime, everybody involved with the decision-making is long-dead and while the responsible state still exists, in practice compensation comes from taxes paid by citizens who had no part in it all. 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). * the legal institution and pretty much the practice 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?). @ Boganboy Tim says there might be some truth to them for the Caribbean. 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