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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxc5ENT8ajg, https://www.history.co.uk/shows/the-real-vikings/articles/eyewitness-to-the-vikings, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestmannaeyjar, https://www.historytoday.com/archive/normans-and-slavery-breaking-bonds, https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/domesday/world-of-domesday/order.htm, Apparently Essay Mills Must Be Made Illegal, Why Oxfam Can Go Boil Their Heads Over Vaccine Patents, The real point about climate change is how cheap the solution is, The excellent Tim Worstall- The Register, Tim Worstall is a darn good economist- Don Boudreaux, Tim Worstall, you pendant- Polly Toynbee, .more sensible than most right wing nutjob bloggersBob Piper. 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 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. Not good. Video, 00:02:30Should black history be taught all year round? Pope Nicholas V gave his blessing, so long as the Vatican benefited. 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, of course, being half white, he is only entitled to half the reparation payment. The masses who once supported black freedom now campaigned for the Deep South. The German survivors of Stalingrad were sent to camps and most of them worked to death. Not many remember anything about segregation either. David Olusoga meets Janice Haber and her family, the descendents of Jewish . 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. Long after he had published Corydon, his defence of pederasty. Women such as Elizabeth Heyrick continued to lobby for the abolition of slavery. 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. I havent said anything about my personal sense of guilt or responsibility. 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. 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. It has been reissued by publishing house Hodder and Prof Olusoga has written the foreword. I assume these were usually killed before Europeans turned up and bought them. It isnt happening now. It's against this backdrop that Black British History Month was created. 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. Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. The rest of this looks like the usual white washing (so to speak) of African slavery. 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.". 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. Its been banned for two centuries in Britain. Duke University professor, William Darity Jr, and writer, Kirsten Mullen, jointly published a report for The Roosevelt Institute, an American liberal think tank, laying out a case for slavery reparations. If slavery really mattered theyd be campaigning for reparations from the blacks and arabs/moslems who were doing it long before the white man arrived in Africa and was far more devastating. Young people - such as Lavinya Stennett who founded the Black Curriculum campaign group - have been calling for change. Dr Peter Olusoga is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology. I have that estimate saved and ready to be critiqued as part of a larger project. Country Star Kacey Musgraves: Voting for Trump Is an Act of Violence. 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. Hundreds of White women raped every day. 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 good news is that Black Lives Matter may be that trigger. Separated from home and family and landed in the West Indies (countless numbers dying of suffocation during the journey, given that the people traffickers were packing the holds to maximise profits), the Africans had no recourse to the law, much less the conscience of their captors. Video1894 shipwreck confirms tale of treacherous lifeboat, How 10% of Nigerian registered voters delivered victory, Sake brewers toast big rise in global sales, The Indian-American CEO who wants to be US president, Blackpink lead top stars back on the road in Asia, Exploring the rigging claims in Nigeria's elections, 'Wales is in England' gaffe sparks TikToker's trip. Id say this to Mr Olusoga. 1894 shipwreck confirms tale of treacherous lifeboat. No doubt life expectancy of a slave was shorter than that for a free man. Olusoga poses as an objective historian and says he is not there to bring comfort to people. In 1986 I came across the book Staying Power by the British journalist Peter Fryer. Fair point. That is not true. Get back to us when youve developed your historicalguiltometer. I assume he is not very bright and Race Hustling is very lucrative. Thats why when the question is raised, I always point out that they owe me lots and lots of money. TV historian David Olusoga claims it is "palpable nonsense" to say that removing controversial statues "somehow impoverishes history". Id say theres enormous dangers in treating this as if it was some public school debating society gig. The best and brightest minds in the UK defended Stalins slavery. The rest apart from Ireland (17, partly due to influence of aforementioned Patrick) set it younger. 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). BLM is after political or financial advantages because of slavery. But its still awful, even on a historical scale.. Within the EU the two most common ages of consent are 14 and 15 (if Ive done my counting correctly), though in some but not all cases thats with additional restrictions on permissible age gaps. not at all to disparage your ancestors GC. I cant see this one surviving people being expected to dig into their pockets for a few trillion. Prof Olusoga says statues, such as those of slave traders . Slaves were crowded in a new environment with new diseases. David Olusoga is a 49-year-old historian and presenter Credit: Getty - Contributor David Olusoga is a British Nigerian historian, broadcaster and writer. 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. So he calls himself a Geordie. One of his teachers had a coffee mug bearing a National Front slogan and another attacked him during a school trip, he said. Its very noticable how nobodys mentioning that the Spanish Empire were doing this for several centuries before the British got involved. He presented the recent series of A House Through Time on BBC 2, and Black and British: A Forgotten History. And tolerance is not a given. 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. First launched in London in 1987, it aims to highlight and celebrate what black people have achieved in Britain throughout history. Why are these characterizations needed? I have done nothing. 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. Mans a loon. 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. David Olusoga, 49, is a television presenter and historian. "I have," he admits, "a habit of . "They were barely known even to historians. Supported by African authors of slave narratives such as Olaudah Equiano and Ottabah Cugoano, they held meetings all over the country, attracting huge crowds. Whether they are too stupid to think of that remains to be seen. 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. Might, in this case, being 100% of the debating point. 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. 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. . It was far too real to her. 2023 BBC. H istorian and broadcaster David Olusoga has been the face of a decolonial turn in British broadcasting that, in recent years, with series including the Bafta-winning Britain's Forgotten Slave. In fact he is a biased political campaigner working to attack and do as much damage to Britain as he can. 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. Tim says there might be some truth to them for the Caribbean. They have a game plan & youre falling for it. Then, in October, came a breakthrough. The system he witnessed and wrote about was one in which human beings were worked to death. Married an American GI after the war. My great grandfather fought to end slavery in a war. "They do not want British history to be a catalogue of heroes and victories and glorious chapters," he says. 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. In 1796, a bill was defeated by only four votes: a group of abolitionist MPs went to the opera and missed the vote. 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. 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. Although I would expect the Germans, and perhaps even the Japanese, to be happy they lost the war. Not sure theyd do that with modern sensibilities mind you. The strongest case I can see against reparations is not fundamentally a legal one but perhaps one degree abstracted the law if we can litigate that, we can litigate a heck of a lot of stuff from centuries past, tie our legal systems up in knots with no obvious limits in sight. Will Britain change? He writes to inflame white guilt, so that you will ACCEPT destruction of your culture. But that ignores how the demand of outsiders led inevitably to far more supply being provided. How could Britain, a civilised and Christian nation, indulge in rape, torture, killing and the forced labour of Africans over two centuries? Indeed in many cases, whose ancestors didnt even live in France or England at the relevant time. Inflaming the reader has no purpose relative to slavery. It happened. A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. And Britain worked for the whole of the 19th century to put down slavery in Africa. Both groups today, especially the former, could reasonably claim historic persecution has reduced their present income and wealth. Peter completed his award-winning PhD, exploring stress and coping in elite sports coaching, at Sheffield Hallam in 2012. "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. (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. 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. June 16, 2020 - 20:29 BST Aisha Nozari. Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. Cest de la trs bonne dialectique conomique. 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.. Slavery didnt last much longer for various reasons, fizzled out in a century or so, but we have the records to show it was still part of the system after twenty years of Norman rule: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/domesday/world-of-domesday/order.htm. (As the first person to mention the Sokoto Caliphate ahh, forget it.). 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. Sure. Kyle Rittenhouse, unlike the rest of their sorry asses, did something. 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. Well the universe has a law of gravity but it doesnt have a law of should there be reparations. Instead the racket still goes on with endless boatloads of illegals swarming into Europe. He updates Fryer, citing radioisotope analysis of skeletons and craniometrics, which support written documentation of Aurelian Moors guarding Hadrians Wall and settling in places such as Yorkshire. If one disproves his assertions would slavery then be okay? BZZZTT!! When Olusoga recalled the experience before television cameras last year, he wept. In the 15th and 16th centuries, thousands of pounds of gold were shipped to Europe. There is the Push argument and the Pull argument. In dealing with the black contribution to the First World War, for example, he cites popular gratitude and admiration for black Britons among them Walter Tull, who fought on the Western Front. "The phenomena of which he is iconic is one that we have written out, edited out of our nation. I am not so sure about that although it is another argument. Dont even get me started on the Moors, Arabs and Ottomans, As for getting rich many African tribes kept slaves and their societies did not get rich. Its extraordinary success rested upon the foundation of sympathy laid down during the previous 70 years of abolitionist activity in Britain. His dad met his mom at the city's university in the 1960s. His current research focuses on stress, burnout, and wellbeing in sports, with a particular interest in high-performance environments and elite coaching. No member of my family ever owned slaves. It wasnt always so & it may not be in the future. It built slave forts on the African coast, some such as Bunce Island in Sierra Leone furnished with a rape house. Welsh slave-raids into England continued until early Norman times. 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. Various among the societies that were agglomerated into Nigeria were more or less involved in that slave trade from the supply end. 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. 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.. His black half can get the half-payment direct from his white half. Abolition was the first mass philanthropic movement in Britain, and it ended the slave trade in 1807. 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).. There is no reason to think that slavery was nicer in Africa. For some peculiar reason possibly because theres a section of Western society has become very insecure about its own position its being some credence. 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. Very little sugar on the mainland. It may have made sense for the SS to starve labourers to death. 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. Cotton was a completely different slave economy. Shouldnt Olusoga be writing in Ubangi bantu-language? 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 assumes an increase in demand. He was a prominent figure in the campaign to abolish slavery. He is the undisputed King of the Internet Pedants and Lord of the Unnecessary Snark. As it happens, I dont believe in sins of the fathers passing down the generations. Black and British: A Forgotten History 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. 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. 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? That someone did something 200 years ago means double ought nothing. 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. Olusoga has written stand-alone history books as well as those accompanying his television series. Two men managed to escape and were rescued, but not before my great, great, grandfather was beaten, starved and worked to death, his body thrown into the jungle for the animals and insects to dispose of. He is a Cultural Marxist trying to destroy the West. ", TV historian rejects 'nonsense' over keeping statues, What Black History Month is - and why it matters. After all, adult males were all but worthless and demand for women might have been enough to drive the trade anyway. "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.". Get back to me in seven years, when youre ready to order. Olusoga patterns his narrative after Fryers, starting with the North African presence in Roman Britain. They are now CM scum and couldnt care less about America. They arent going to concede anything. Nineteen eighty-four was a transformative year for David Olusoga. So how much have considered paedophilia? Dont know if I would rule it out entirely because the demographics are different but it might need a change in the voting dynamics. 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 my advice would be, for his own health, STFU. 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. 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. But maybe they did not. Nor do I think that sugar is worse than cotton. I havent the faintest idea whether slavery in the Roman controlled areas of Britain was more along the continental Roman model or retained Celtic characteristics. You dont have esoteric discussions with paedophiles any more than you would with serial killers. 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. I am happy with Olusogo paying reparations to himself. The stars are out as Dr Pete Olusoga explores the psychology of stage and screen with the wonderful British actor (and Coronation Street veteran), Shobna Gulati. "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. Sure. Get back to us when your sin/privilege is expunged. 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?. That star stuff wont last. So he calls himself a Geordie. The economics of the slave trade may have meant that it was cheaper to work someone to death rather than allowing him a comfortable old age. The argument isnt whether historical slavery was right or wrong or who should accept responsibility for it. Anybody can do this. 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. They all get it from White people inciting violence. And yet anti-black race riots broke out in 1948 in Liverpool and in 1958 in Nottingham and Londons Notting Hill. He also studied at the University of Liverpool and so benefits from slavery as much as anyone else. Flyover Americans arent going to take it. 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. In America few were castrated, which is why there are now >40 million descendants there. That was when the Democrats were still Americans. What do you think their stongest argument is? A weekly round-up of some of the best articles featured in the most recent issue of the New Statesman, sent each Saturday. Youre right, MBE. Hes insisting that a household headed by a 21 year old black should have the average wealth of all white households. 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. 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. Their demands should simply be refused. But werent they lucky compared to the other Germans in Stalingrad? Id agree that attitudes in the UK are approaching that situation, but theres still a long, long way to go yet. This is nothing to do with slavery or as with black lives matter, blacks being shot, and everything to do with a shakedown of the white man. 7 years was the average working lifespan so it is said. The arguments do you want to get shaken down for several trillion? Thy did not try to grow or raise the next generation. . Would probably have taken your suggestion as a challenge. 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. 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. 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. This is because forgetting slavery means forgetting its victims. Olusoga brilliantly reveals such contradictions in British society. Fuck right off As a winning debating strategy. Thats fine, BraveFart. ), Who is fundamentally right about reparations for slavery? "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. Giles Terera, the Olivier award-winning British performer who starred in the popular theatre production Hamilton, has . Olusoga is just getting even because he was attacked by the right when he was a teenager. Whoever has the upper-hand in power political, cultural, economic, military or whatever other form is decisive at that moment. The world has seen more slavery since its abolition than before. David Olusoga Its entirely possible to think something was awful without feeling the slightest twinge of guilt or personal responsibility. Like the Nigerian slavers who enslaved and sold the slaves, you mean? "Equiano is the most important voice that we have from the British experience of slavery and the slave trade," he said. Needless to say they should pay us reparations for this too. And the third, fourth, fifth, and so on. In the USA? Then a young teenager, he was driven out of his council home, together with his grandmother, mother, two sisters and younger brother, by a sustained campaign of nightly stoning of their windows. The New Statesmans global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. . 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