Olusoga, who is half-Nigerian, traces this focus to his mother telling him when he was a child that Nigerian soldiers served in World War II. The book accompanying. 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. Later his parents separated from each other when he was just two years old. To be honest, I was a bit sceptical about the Olympics coming to London, but the atmosphere across the capital was genuinely wonderful . Definitely didnt die out with the Romans. . What has he got to say about that? So he calls himself a Geordie. is that the extra demand distorted the market, led directly to more armed slave-raiding expeditions against rival tribes and so on.. What is their strongest argument? 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. But Ill tell you what, slavery and human sacrifice, still awful. Although I would expect the Germans, and perhaps even the Japanese, to be happy they lost the war. Re putting the argument for paedophilia they actually gave Gide the Nobel prize for literature didnt they? I doubt that they are now firmly united in a common cause. In the 15th and 16th centuries, thousands of pounds of gold were shipped to Europe. 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. This ignorant fellow should study historical facts, rather than believing and repeating lies and half-truths. They did not care much for adult males. Id say this to Mr Olusoga. No doubt life expectancy of a slave was shorter than that for a free man. Not sure how sick this makes me. 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. There is no reason to single White people out for unique levels of criticism. And, of course, being half white, he is only entitled to half the reparation payment. They also ran a slave trade to the Ottoman empire and white slavery in the north without any help from Europeans. A fifty quid note in the hand of the first black bloke you encounter. In fact he is a biased political campaigner working to attack and do as much damage to Britain as he can. In that moment, his interest in history overlapped. Indeed, third-century York may have been more ethnically and racially diverse than present-day York. His choice of subject and his choice of material make that very clear. It wasnt always so & it may not be in the future. 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). Heroes of 2020 What Marcus Rashford's campaign for hungry children tells us about . Not to say it was nice.. But it is also likely that disease played a role. 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). Not to say it was nice. Hey, we do not even have to go that far. I think a case could be made. Supported by African authors of slave narratives such as Olaudah Equiano and Ottabah Cugoano, they held meetings all over the country, attracting huge crowds. I suspect that whether records could prove it or not, its overwhelmingly likely to be true, especially since high-status individuals tend to make a bigger contribution to the gene pool. 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. 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. Then the adult men became profitable too. 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. But slaves were more valuable, so the British fought the Spanish for a share in the trade and eventually came to dominate it. 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. 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? But there have been other societies with slavery where slaves had more autonomy and a greater chance of buying their freedom. 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. arguments are pretty weak since relying on a doctrine of virtues of the fathers risks implicitly accepting sins of the fathers.. The UK, Norway, Benelux, Spain, Malta and Switzerland are, I believe, the only western European countries to set it at 16. Welsh slave-raids into England continued until early Norman times. . 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? The system he witnessed and wrote about was one in which human beings were worked to death. I havent said anything about my personal sense of guilt or responsibility. What difference has it made? You can be redeemed, you worthless pasty people. 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. 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. Whoever has the upper-hand in power political, cultural, economic, military or whatever other form is decisive at that moment. There is no reason to think one system was more or less brutal than the other. "They do not want British history to be a catalogue of heroes and victories and glorious chapters," he says. It isnt going to happen anyway. 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". He was born in Nigeria but arrived in the . (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. The good news is that Black Lives Matter may be that trigger. 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 novel became the bestselling book of 19th-century Britain; it was adapted for the theatre and generated mass-produced merchandise playing cards, jigsaws, tableware. I assume he is not very bright and Race Hustling is very lucrative. There is no reason to single White people out for unique levels of criticism. We pretend we do not like slavery but actually we do not like slave traders. not at all to disparage your ancestors GC. A newsletter showcasing the finest writing from the ideas section, covering political ideas, philosophy, criticism and intellectual history - sent every Wednesday. 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. Note, hes a renowned economist. 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. That hes able to write this article is because hes living in what is, by historical standards, a remarkably tolerant society. TV historian David Olusoga claims it is "palpable nonsense" to say that removing controversial statues "somehow impoverishes history". If there were African states with legal continuity to those political entities which established and encouraged the African slave markets, they would be on the hook too, but theres a discontinuity due to colonialism and besides, everyone knows to sue the rich guy not the poor guy. He writes to inflame white guilt, so that you will ACCEPT destruction of your culture. I just dont really get what Olusoga is saying. That may have caused more violence. "The way history is viewed is changing. He presents a one sided and biased picture of slavery which takes no account of the African participation in it. Giles Terera, the Olivier award-winning British performer who starred in the popular theatre production Hamilton, has . It was, I believe, the first book I ever bought for myself with my own money. 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. Required fields are marked *. Cotton was a completely different slave economy. Flyover Americans arent going to take it. The masses who once supported black freedom now campaigned for the Deep South. "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.". The world has seen more slavery since its abolition than before. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 2023 BBC. Even discussing it gives your opponents arguments merit. That star stuff wont last. In 1860, cotton goods accounted for 40 per cent of all British exports. (As the first person to mention the Sokoto Caliphate ahh, forget it.). Wider imperialism reparations that include South Asia, China for the Opium Wars and so on, surely even more prohibitively costly, regardless of how effective the education system gets at making young Brits feel a vague sense of guilt about it all. They may not be happy about Dresden or Hiroshima but their lives are much better. It happened. When Olusoga recalled the experience before television cameras last year, he wept. Its extraordinary success rested upon the foundation of sympathy laid down during the previous 70 years of abolitionist activity in Britain. "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. Olusoga poses as an objective historian and says he is not there to bring comfort to people. It is a political campaign, not a contribution to academic history. Africans had a demand for female slaves. TV presenter David Olusoga has told the Edinburgh TV Festival his career had sometimes left him feeling "crushed, isolated," and "disempowered". Prof Olusoga is not the only person who has been drawn to Equiano's story. We do not know for sure. David Olusoga, 49, is a television presenter and historian. Pope Nicholas V gave his blessing, so long as the Vatican benefited. Macmillan, 624pp, 25, David Dabydeen is a novelist, broadcaster, academic and co-editor of The Oxford Companion to Black British History (Oxford University Press), This article appears in the 16 Aug 2017 issue of the New Statesman, Trump goes nuclear, Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics. But its still awful, even on a historical scale. 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. "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. 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. Olusoga is of half Nigerian descent. Thats why when the question is raised, I always point out that they owe me lots and lots of money. Obama had none. Thousands of petitions were presented to parliament. If their ancestors had remained in Africa would they be better off than they are now? 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. West Indians fought with the Allies more than a hundred were decorated. They arent going to concede anything. 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. Like Fryers book, Olusogas will inspire and will come to be seen as a major effort to address one of the greatest silences in British historiography. In 1986 I came across the book Staying Power by the British journalist Peter Fryer. It died out with the Romans leaving, and its non-legality repeatedly reaffirmed from the reign of the early Normans onwards. As Black British History Month draws to a close, TV historian Prof David Olusoga looks at the impact it's had - and how young people are taking it on. He presented the recent series of A House Through Time on BBC 2, and Black and British: A Forgotten History. See, five years ago I wouldnt have written a crass comment like that, but hey, times achanging and as financially independent with some FU-money, I dont have to worry about cancellation culture, LOL. Whether they are too stupid to think of that remains to be seen. As a nation, we still have only a dim understanding of the slave system that funded Sloanes collecting. And yet Africans and West Indians were banned from the victory parade in 1919. While I dont think they persuaded anyone, they did shift perspectives a bit. 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. ), 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. 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. "So when black history was missing - the history of empire, the history of slavery - was missing from my history lessons, I didn't have a place to go to discover those missing chapters. If the alternative was that they were killed? We aint paying no goddam reparations & no-ones gonna make us. 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. 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. 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. More than a million copies were sold in Britain cheap pirated versions reached a mass readership. Youre right, MBE. 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. If black lives really mattered these people would be protesting the 500 shot dead so far by predominantly black men in Chicago this year. His black half can get the half-payment direct from his white half. As he states, The oral history of 20th-century racial violence has never been collected or collated, but it is thereand it is shocking.. Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. Peter Olusoga. Get back to us when your sin/privilege is expunged. They deliberately bought skewed mostly male gender balance. Certainly they killed them casually often for religious reasons. You might have heard of a Romano-British chap called Patrick, got enslaved and nabbed to Ireland? 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. All in all your typical West African is far more likely to have ancestral connections to the slave trade than your typical Brit. Quite possibly slave-raiding Gaels before that. No? "Equiano is the most important voice that we have from the British experience of slavery and the slave trade," he said. Kyle Rittenhouse, unlike the rest of their sorry asses, did something. 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. Eventually, 11,000 separate British slave-trading expeditions resulted in the trafficking of three-and-a-half-million Africans to the New World plantations, the greatest forced migration in modern history until the 20th century. Over 1000 years in Britain. I think it's an astonishing achievement.". Country Star Kacey Musgraves: Voting for Trump Is an Act of Violence. We do not know enough to be sure. So he calls himself a Geordie. So how much have considered paedophilia? 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. Long after he had published Corydon, his defence of pederasty. He saw how enslaved people who had risen up were burnt to death, castrated or mutilated, punishments he regarded as merited. For almost 60 years, there was impasse. Oh man. The strongest argument I can see for reparations is not that white people bear some kind of ancestral blame. Perhaps Im a bit more culturally relativist these days, but just read it again, still absolutely awful. Would probably have taken your suggestion as a challenge. 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. 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. Which of those societies does Olusogas ancestry come from? 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. Rather the constitution banned the slave trade and so it become economically worth it to make sure slaves lived longer. 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. 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. BLM is after political or financial advantages because of slavery. So is Richard Murphy. The rest of this looks like the usual white washing (so to speak) of African slavery. White people are unique in ending slavery across the world*. at scales that were unusual in the long and varied history of slavery, and levels of brutality that stood out too. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Just as how in the 16th century the anti-slavery voices in Europe were overwhelmed, and in the 19th century the abolitionists won out. 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. 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. The New Statesmans weekly environment email on the politics, business and culture of the climate and nature crises - in your inbox every Thursday. 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