I can then give him the details of other descendants, he can apologise to and compensate. It isnt happening now. Different people can argue the toss from different viewpoints and perspectives but in many ways their arguments pass each other like ships in the night, because they havent all got nobodys got an absolute frame of reference to judge things with respect to. 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). 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. Slavery is bad or it isnt. 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. 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. If black lives really mattered these people would be protesting the 500 shot dead so far by predominantly black men in Chicago this year. Its been banned for two centuries in Britain. It died out with the Romans leaving, and its non-legality repeatedly reaffirmed from the reign of the early Normans onwards.. Like I need to hand my cash to the next lass of Rus descent I see, lest she remind me of some unlucky slave-girl that may or may not have perished at the hands of my maybe-ancestors? They are now CM scum and couldnt care less about America. There is an alternative argument that it is their ancestors who were wronged hence deserve compensation and as descendants theyre entitled to an inherited share (so their portion depends on how many slaves at what position in the family tree) plus interest, regardless of how well theyre doing now. Black history: Should it be part of the wider curriculum? And any reparations should be paid 50% by the African states for the areas which sold the slaves and pocketed the proceeds. "They were barely known even to historians. Maybe someone should advise him to button his lip before he stirs up something he may not like. That involved killing the adult men. "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. The Celtic version of slavery (which ran to quite a different model) was still going on in the places the Romans didnt reach. many African tribes kept slaves. Hes insisting that a household headed by a 21 year old black should have the average wealth of all white households. 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. So there were times when food was expensive, we can call those shortages or famines. 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. Mans a loon. I imagine few do. Make sure it doesnt happen in the least costly way. I have that estimate saved and ready to be critiqued as part of a larger project. June 16, 2020 - 20:29 BST Aisha Nozari. The publication in 1852 of Uncle Toms Cabin, by the American abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, swelled national sympathy for the plight of black slaves. It seems absurd to me that anyone should be concerned about what happened 200 or 500 years ago. And they will go looking for parts of the past that aren't on the curriculum, and they evidently do. 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.. Get back to us when your sin/privilege is expunged. The New Statesmans weekly environment email on the politics, business and culture of the climate and nature crises - in your inbox every Thursday. As it happens, I dont believe in sins of the fathers passing down the generations. Cheap ass presentism. They may have been turning people they would have killed into a profitable commodity. They included Josiah Wedgwood (the pottery entrepreneur), Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson. It may not. 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. David will . First launched in London in 1987, it aims to highlight and celebrate what black people have achieved in Britain throughout history. We aint paying no goddam reparations & no-ones gonna make us. 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. Then the second. Note, hes a renowned economist. The UK, Norway, Benelux, Spain, Malta and Switzerland are, I believe, the only western European countries to set it at 16. When Olusoga recalled the experience before television cameras last year, he wept. ), Who is fundamentally right about reparations for slavery? Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. I had a girlfriend whose mother was a Nazi. How does importing new labour from West Africa solve the food shortage in the West Indies? 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. 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. The best and brightest minds in the UK defended Stalins slavery. MBE, do not entertain these people, not for one second. His current research focuses on stress, burnout, and wellbeing in sports, with a particular interest in high-performance environments and elite coaching. That someone did something 200 years ago means double ought nothing.. It is about the centuries-long engagement with Africa, a consequence of which is the black presence in Britain. 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. 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. Prof Olusoga is not the only person who has been drawn to Equiano's story. 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. 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. 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?). While I dont think they persuaded anyone, they did shift perspectives a bit. "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. But you need a different approach if you dont think great-grandkids of the Confederacy are still fair game.) A House Through Time returned to BBC Two in May for its third season, and once again is fronted by historian extraordinaire David Olusoga. Re putting the argument for paedophilia they actually gave Gide the Nobel prize for literature didnt they? Olusoga is of half Nigerian descent. He was a prominent figure in the campaign to abolish slavery. 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. 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). 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. 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. No other race / culture was willing and able to do that. Over 150 years in America. That may have caused more violence. It was an apt university to experiment with such developments, since Lord Scarman, who reported on the Brixton riots of 1981, was its chancellor. Id say the same to the Black Lives Matter people. ", TV historian rejects 'nonsense' over keeping statues, What Black History Month is - and why it matters. The good news is that Black Lives Matter may be that trigger. 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? Would the good professor really be so different if genealogical records could prove he had African ancestors who owned African slaves? 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.. Id say this to Mr Olusoga. If you think 14 is the wrong decision for the boundary, a better argument is a rebuttal of the strongest case for 14 rather than a rebuttal of a straw-man version of it. 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 previously worked at JP Morgan for 18 years in a number of senior roles and was . Would also apply even if down a different family line there had been beneficiaries of the slave trade. In the late 1800's and early 1900's, 30,000 Jewish migrants from Russia and Eastern Europe settled in Manchester. 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 learned the hard way. In 1860, cotton goods accounted for 40 per cent of all British exports. And that still stands even if there really are a bunch of torturing murderers out there too. 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. Jamaicans and Nigerians used to hate each other. Over 1000 years in Britain. Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. A covering letter would be a courtesy but probably not a necessity. Perhaps Im a bit more culturally relativist these days, but just read it again, still absolutely awful. My first reaction, years and years ago, was thats awful. A newsletter showcasing the finest writing from the ideas section, covering political ideas, philosophy, criticism and intellectual history - sent every Wednesday. 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. How could Britain, a civilised and Christian nation, indulge in rape, torture, killing and the forced labour of Africans over two centuries? Watching @worstall execute @richardjmurphy is like watching a very, very clever cat slowly killing at ataxic mouse. Indeed, third-century York may have been more ethnically and racially diverse than present-day York. So how much have considered paedophilia? Cest de la trs bonne dialectique conomique. His choice of subject and his choice of material make that very clear. 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). It's possibly a deeper change than some people realise because I don't think what we're living through is a series of political events; I think we're living through a generational shift," he says. But Muslims were enslaving white Europeans into Africa long before the Atlantic route, usually castrating the males. 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. You dont have esoteric discussions with paedophiles any more than you would with serial killers. They did not care much for adult males. 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.. "Equiano is the most important voice that we have from the British experience of slavery and the slave trade," he said. Olusoga brilliantly reveals such contradictions in British society. Peter Pan & Wendy is a live-action reimagining of the J.M . Just as how in the 16th century the anti-slavery voices in Europe were overwhelmed, and in the 19th century the abolitionists won out. So this race baiter can try his guilt trip on someone else. How would Nigeria treat a foreigner like him? David Olusoga 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. They have a game plan & youre falling for it. In America few were castrated, which is why there are now >40 million descendants there. 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. Under English law, damages are assessed as being that amount needed to restore them to the position they would have been, had the event claimed against not occurred. is that the extra demand distorted the market, led directly to more armed slave-raiding expeditions against rival tribes and so on.. My family did nothing. 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. Even did something positive. people like Olusoga would have to pay their share of the greatly increased taxes The following decades were taken up with popular and political rhetoric about immigration and parliamentary acts to limit blacks coming to Britain. We do not know how great the demand for women was. So my advice would be, for his own health, STFU. 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. And even if you personally disagree with it, what would be the strongest argument for some form of legal settlement? He was born in Nigeria but arrived in the . No one has said we should not consider someone elses viewpoint. David Olusoga meets Janice Haber and her family, the descendents of Jewish . Black and British: A Forgotten History Slaves were crowded in a new environment with new diseases. But that is not the argument I am making. History is just one awful thing after another. Anti-black riots broke out in Liverpool that year. "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. Such sources give his writing freshness, originality and compassion. 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. Required fields are marked *. We pretend we do not like slavery but actually we do not like slave traders. 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. I think it's an astonishing achievement.". Definitely didnt die out with the Romans. Sure. No? Its extraordinary success rested upon the foundation of sympathy laid down during the previous 70 years of abolitionist activity in Britain. But as someone who is damaged by slavery I have lived in racially mixed communities and I am happy to see Obama and Kamala pay up. Even Bill Clinton had affinity for the USA. 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. In the system that made Sloane wealthy, black women sought out herbs, plant species that he carefully identified and categorised, and used them to induce abortions, determined as many were not to bring into the world children who would be born items of property and destined to live short, brutalised lives. Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade is part of the national curriculum, although it is not statutory. The argument isnt whether historical slavery was right or wrong or who should accept responsibility for it. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Viking Dublin was a major slave-trading centre (English, Irish, Scots, anyone else they could get their hands on). "The phenomena of which he is iconic is one that we have written out, edited out of our nation. And, of course, being half white, he is only entitled to half the reparation payment. You can be redeemed, you worthless pasty people. 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. 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. 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. 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. We do not know for sure. Although I would expect the Germans, and perhaps even the Japanese, to be happy they lost the war. Olusogas ancestors will have participated in the capture of sale of slaves in Nigeria. Africans had a demand for female slaves. David Olusoga is a 49-year-old historian and presenter Credit: Getty - Contributor David Olusoga is a British Nigerian historian, broadcaster and writer. I am not so sure about that although it is another argument. If you want to pay more tax, just write a cheque to HMRC and send it off. I am of Ulster Scot heritage, who were originally John Knoxs Cumberland Presbyterians, VERY MUCH against slavery. 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. Its been banned for two centuries in Britain. 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. (and white people was pretty much the British). 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 BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Like the Nigerian slavers who enslaved and sold the slaves, you mean? 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. Married an American GI after the war. MBE: The problem with the UK paying reparations is that people like Olusoga would have to pay their share of the greatly increased taxes. Sure. 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. He also studied at the University of Liverpool and so benefits from slavery as much as anyone else. 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. Might, in this case, being 100% of the debating point. For almost 60 years, there was impasse. Heroes of 2020 What Marcus Rashford's campaign for hungry children tells us about . 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. The masses who once supported black freedom now campaigned for the Deep South. Pretty much everybody in the West is against slavery. One of the reasons why the American and Caribbean experiences were very different. If we look back history is just an unending series of atrocities. The system he witnessed and wrote about was one in which human beings were worked to death. 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. . 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. Exactly, bis. Do I feel like I had anything to do it? And he might not find the society withdraws it nearly as comfortable for him to live in. Pretty sure if you could, implausibly, trace my family tree through various not-very-literate eras youd pass through at least one Anglo-Saxon who owned a bunch of Britons. Anybody can do this. I was uncomfortable using it. So is Richard Murphy. 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. It wasnt always so & it may not be in the future. Just how much should Olusoga receive? Why are these characterizations needed? A weekly round-up of some of the best articles featured in the most recent issue of the New Statesman, sent each Saturday. 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. It is a form of self-loathing. No doubt life expectancy of a slave was shorter than that for a free man. Even discussing it gives your opponents arguments merit. It's against this backdrop that Black British History Month was created. Abolition was the first mass philanthropic movement in Britain, and it ended the slave trade in 1807. Writing in english is cultural appropriation so STFU. Maybe Europeans did increase demand. 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. White people will take it. TV historian David Olusoga claims it is "palpable nonsense" to say that removing controversial statues "somehow impoverishes history". 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"Incorporating the stories of people like Equiano is merely part of a process of looking at all of British history; not just being selective, not only going to the chapters that make us feel good about ourselves or proud.". Long after slavery ended in the British colonies, British people continued to lobby the American government to free their slaves. (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. Thats what I dont like about the angle of Tims header. Later his parents separated from each other when he was just two years old. Wrong ?!?! I do not see what is different between a plantation in Africa and a plantation in Virginia. Anglo-Saxons had slaves. All in all your typical West African is far more likely to have ancestral connections to the slave trade than your typical Brit. Id say theres enormous dangers in treating this as if it was some public school debating society gig. They are stupid false for America. In 1986 I came across the book Staying Power by the British journalist Peter Fryer. Giles Terera, the Olivier award-winning British performer who starred in the popular theatre production Hamilton, has . Peter completed his award-winning PhD, exploring stress and coping in elite sports coaching, at Sheffield Hallam in 2012. Britain was happy to force the Bevan Boys down coal mines. Read about our approach to external linking. Get back to me in seven years, when youre ready to order. Shipwrecked off the coast of Africa, he, and other survivors, were taken by an African tribe as captives. In the case of slavery the answer is clear. 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. He talks about slavery because YOU care. More than a million copies were sold in Britain cheap pirated versions reached a mass readership. They organised a boycott of sugar, produced more petitions and hosted meetings. Whether they are too stupid to think of that remains to be seen. It has been reissued by publishing house Hodder and Prof Olusoga has written the foreword. "The way history is viewed is changing. 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