Pope Nicholas V gave his blessing, so long as the Vatican benefited. 2023 BBC. Everyone was. Grew up in Quedlinburg. 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. @ Boganboy Over 1000 years in Britain. at scales that were unusual in the long and varied history of slavery, and levels of brutality that stood out too. It was an apt university to experiment with such developments, since Lord Scarman, who reported on the Brixton riots of 1981, was its chancellor. 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. Tim may be wrong about stuff, but ..that, ultimately, makes up for his beating squirrels to death for a hobby, Tim Worstall a horrid man who is anti-minimum wage among other repugnant things Socialist News. It was far too real to her. How could Britain, a civilised and Christian nation, indulge in rape, torture, killing and the forced labour of Africans over two centuries? Hundreds of White women raped every day. How does it benefit anyone to make an issue about particular events? Ill disparage them. Theres probably more mileage in my country, or at least its historical incarnation, fought against it because unlike the actual people involved, the state is still around. 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). (At least in our society) Get over it. They deliberately bought skewed mostly male gender balance. What has Nigeria ever done for him? He has discovered new and exciting research materials in African archives, among them the Register of Liberated Africans in Sierra Leone, which list names, bodily details, ethnicity and origins, thus putting a human face on people otherwise treated as fodder and statistics. Should black history be taught all year round? Even did something positive. Though I dont know where wed get $12 trillion in Confederate currency. So this race baiter can try his guilt trip on someone else. Olusoga has benefited from and added significantly to the work of Fryer and other historians such as James Walvin. Good point, I wonder how he squares the obviously comfortable living he has writing, opining and broadcasting about slavery with his principles. And tolerance is not a given. Then the second. He talks about slavery because YOU care. In 1860, cotton goods accounted for 40 per cent of all British exports. If one disproves his assertions would slavery then be okay? One of the reasons why the American and Caribbean experiences were very different. It died out with the Romans leaving, and its non-legality repeatedly reaffirmed from the reign of the early Normans onwards. West Indians fought with the Allies more than a hundred were decorated. My great, great, grandfather was one. Not many remember anything about segregation either. Prof Olusoga is not the only person who has been drawn to Equiano's story. So he calls himself a Geordie. 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. Forbes magazine's extraordinarily arrogant contributor Tim Worstall Jeremy Corbyn. 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. Which of those societies does Olusogas ancestry come from? They arent going to concede anything. It's against this backdrop that Black British History Month was created. Anglo-Saxons had slaves. Or they may discover how little black lives do matter. After all, adult males were all but worthless and demand for women might have been enough to drive the trade anyway. In the case of slavery the answer is clear. Sugar plantations were bad. And that still stands even if there really are a bunch of torturing murderers out there too. This ignorant fellow should study historical facts, rather than believing and repeating lies and half-truths. White communities suffer huge losses from Black crime. A weekly round-up of some of the best articles featured in the most recent issue of the New Statesman, sent each Saturday. 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. There is plenty of slavery about we just do not call it that. Sooner or later, we whites are going to have to take a stand, and say we aint taking this any more. In that moment, his interest in history overlapped. However, it applies to at least 80% of Americans. How does importing new labour from West Africa solve the food shortage in the West Indies? The best and brightest minds in the UK defended Stalins slavery. David Olusoga is a 49-year-old historian and presenter Credit: Getty - Contributor David Olusoga is a British Nigerian historian, broadcaster and writer. You dont have esoteric discussions with paedophiles any more than you would with serial killers. Full text must be online somewhere but theres an extract at https://www.history.co.uk/shows/the-real-vikings/articles/eyewitness-to-the-vikings. He was born in Nigeria but arrived in the . Even Bill Clinton had affinity for the USA. 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. "They look to history not just for inspiration and comfort, not just for heroes and for glorious chapters; they look for history expecting to find challenging stories, painful stories, dark truths, villains as well as heroes. ), Who is fundamentally right about reparations for slavery? Heroes of 2020 What Marcus Rashford's campaign for hungry children tells us about . Read about our approach to external linking. It costs money to replace them and after a famine the price of slaves would rise. Davids all done. Joining them is Psychologist and Lecturer at Lancaster University, Dr David Tod, for a fascinating conversation about the psychology of acting. 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. Some were sold to other African tribes and the rest kept as slaves. I doubt that they are now firmly united in a common cause. 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. Video, 00:02:30. Giles Terera, the Olivier award-winning British performer who starred in the popular theatre production Hamilton, has recently staged a play called the Meaning of Zong about the massacre of 132 enslaved Africans aboard the slave ship Zong in 1781 and the impact it had on Equiano. And I dont think this is what reparations campaigners are calling for either, as I understand it their argument includes systematic legacy issues not just the period of slavery itself, so the harm relates more directly to them not just their ancestors. Such sources give his writing freshness, originality and compassion. Thats fine, BraveFart. 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. If black lives really mattered these people would be protesting the 500 shot dead so far by predominantly black men in Chicago this year. It may have made sense for the SS to starve labourers to death. It is a political campaign, not a contribution to academic history. Will Britain change? 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. My family did nothing. Not sure how sick this makes me. And, of course, being half white, he is only entitled to half the reparation payment. Between that night at the opera and 1807, nearly 800,000 Africans were enslaved. Dont know if I would rule it out entirely because the demographics are different but it might need a change in the voting dynamics. The masses who once supported black freedom now campaigned for the Deep South. Instead the racket still goes on with endless boatloads of illegals swarming into Europe. Indeed, third-century York may have been more ethnically and racially diverse than present-day York. What would happen to that money, who knows, but as its (or was) your money, thats between you and your grifter of choice. As he states, The oral history of 20th-century racial violence has never been collected or collated, but it is thereand it is shocking.. The problem with slavery is that it left us with their descendents and weak minded White populations. Watching @worstall execute @richardjmurphy is like watching a very, very clever cat slowly killing at ataxic mouse. In the USA? They organised a boycott of sugar, produced more petitions and hosted meetings. The details of difference are fairly minor. It was, I believe, the first book I ever bought for myself with my own money. 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. The answer is money. Oh man. Britain should be proud of helping to stop (African to America) slavery, like the Republican Party and unlike the Democrats. Do I feel like I had anything to do it? 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. 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. 1894 shipwreck confirms tale of treacherous lifeboat. It isnt going to happen anyway. Inflaming the reader has no purpose relative to slavery. I assume these were usually killed before Europeans turned up and bought them. Hes insisting that a household headed by a 21 year old black should have the average wealth of all white households. "They were barely known even to historians. Even discussing it gives your opponents arguments merit. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. The agreement is being touted as a . This year, return to Neverland. Sloane witnessed and later became part of a system ruled by terror. Fired by religious feeling, they embarked on a campaign of public education and political lobbying unprecedented in scale and revolutionary in nature. We do not know enough to be sure. "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. But that is not the argument I am making. She had no interest in esoteric discussions of the war. 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 phenomena of which he is iconic is one that we have written out, edited out of our nation. No doubt life expectancy of a slave was shorter than that for a free man. 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. We aint paying no goddam reparations & no-ones gonna make us. Prof Olusoga is not the only person who has been drawn to Equiano's story. But that ignores how the demand of outsiders led inevitably to far more supply being provided. I dont think the traders can be given a pass on this front either., Just means they werent alone in being in the wrong.. Pretty much everybody in the West is against slavery. 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But that ignores how the demand of outsiders led inevitably to far more supply being provided, so I dont think the traders can be given a pass on this front either. I agree BIS. and while the responsible state still exists, 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 do not want British history to be a catalogue of heroes and victories and glorious chapters," he says. 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. It isnt happening now. The rest apart from Ireland (17, partly due to influence of aforementioned Patrick) set it younger. It has been reissued by publishing house Hodder and Prof Olusoga has written the foreword. The following decades were taken up with popular and political rhetoric about immigration and parliamentary acts to limit blacks coming to Britain. I am not so sure about that although it is another argument. 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. So there were times when food was expensive, we can call those shortages or famines. Pretty much everybody in the West is against slavery. 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.. Very often shaped by the political, technological and economic forces of the times if the Western way of life had remained utterly dependent on Roman-style slavery, Im not sure wed ever have abolished it even amongst our own inhabitants. Shouldnt Olusoga be writing in Ubangi bantu-language? Rapidly promoted to sergeant, then second lieutenant, he led white British troops into action and died in 1918, having been mentioned in despatches and recommended for the Military Cross. This seems rather unlikely. Nor do I think that sugar is worse than cotton. When Olusoga recalled the experience before television cameras last year, he wept. Its very noticable how nobodys mentioning that the Spanish Empire were doing this for several centuries before the British got involved. As a nation, we still have only a dim understanding of the slave system that funded Sloanes collecting. . Olusoga is making an appeal to white guilt. The good news is that Black Lives Matter may be that trigger. A renowned economist has said that $12 trillion should be afforded to black Americans in reparation for slavery to help the close wealth gap.. Over 150 years in America. Would probably have taken your suggestion as a challenge. Then, in October, came a breakthrough. Equiano is also mentioned in Incomparable World, a novel by SI Martin, which was selected by Booker award-winning author Bernardine Evaristo for her Black Britain: Writing Back series. The exception is Tim Worstall, who is truly the Ron Jeremy of blogging. (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. But Ill tell you what, slavery and human sacrifice, still awful. The strongest argument I can see for reparations is not that white people bear some kind of ancestral blame. He presented the recent series of A House Through Time on BBC 2, and Black and British: A Forgotten History. BLM is after political or financial advantages because of slavery. One sporting event that has captured your imagination I was fortunate enough to get tickets to see some of the basketball at the London 2012 Olympics, so my brother and I went to watch the GB vs. Spain game. Like I said before, tolerance is in the gift of the powerful. This is indeed tu quoque. Yet American slave-produced raw cotton continued to feed the 4,500 mills of Lancashire. That star stuff wont last. ", TV historian rejects 'nonsense' over keeping statues, What Black History Month is - and why it matters. 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. That someone did something 200 years ago means double ought nothing.. Id say this to Mr Olusoga. They included Josiah Wedgwood (the pottery entrepreneur), Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson. This history of the black presence in . Jamaicans and Nigerians used to hate each other. Why are these characterizations needed? Read about our approach to external linking. Quite possibly slave-raiding Gaels before that. Africans had a demand for female slaves. The publication in 1852 of Uncle Toms Cabin, by the American abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, swelled national sympathy for the plight of black slaves. 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. They have a game plan & youre falling for it. Olusoga is just getting even because he was attacked by the right when he was a teenager. not at all to disparage your ancestors GC. 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. Just how much should Olusoga receive? The arguments do you want to get shaken down for several trillion? White people are unique in ending slavery across the world*. 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. What difference has it made? David Olusoga, introduces his book Black and British, an exploration of the relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa. 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. 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.. 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. In the 15th and 16th centuries, thousands of pounds of gold were shipped to Europe. First launched in London in 1987, it aims to highlight and celebrate what black people have achieved in Britain throughout history. Well the universe has a law of gravity but it doesnt have a law of should there be reparations. Hey, we do not even have to go that far. A fifty quid note in the hand of the first black bloke you encounter. As for the future, the University of Manchester professor says younger generations give him hope. One person who had a huge impact on Britain was Olaudah Equiano, an enslaved man who bought his freedom and wrote compellingly about his experiences. Young people - such as Lavinya Stennett who founded the Black Curriculum campaign group - have been calling for change. 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. Olusoga unloads all sorts of characterizations. The historian and producer said he wanted to. Get back to us when youve developed your historicalguiltometer. What has he got to say about that? 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. We do not know for sure. Its entirely possible to think something was awful without feeling the slightest twinge of guilt or personal responsibility. Married an American GI after the war. Peter Olusoga. How would Nigeria treat a foreigner like him? 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. Olusogas ancestors will have participated in the capture of sale of slaves in Nigeria. History is just one awful thing after another. His exposure to Nigerian culture seems quite limited. 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