Not many remember anything about segregation either. . The best and brightest minds in the UK defended Stalins slavery. It is a political campaign, not a contribution to academic history. 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. 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. Surely the US has already spent much more than that on black Americans. Davids all done. Welsh slave-raids into England continued until early Norman times. That involved killing the adult men. 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?. It has been reissued by publishing house Hodder and Prof Olusoga has written the foreword. In the case of slavery the answer is clear. Peter Pan & Wendy is a live-action reimagining of the J.M . 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. The masses who once supported black freedom now campaigned for the Deep South. The Royal African Company, established by Charles II in 1672, eventually enslaved and transported more Africans than any other company in British history. The vast majority of Americans are not guilty. 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. 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. Olusoga was born in Lagos to a White mother and a Nigerian father - who, I hate to say nautrally, did a runner. (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. In 1796, a bill was defeated by only four votes: a group of abolitionist MPs went to the opera and missed the vote. Young people - such as Lavinya Stennett who founded the Black Curriculum campaign group - have been calling for change. But slaves were more valuable, so the British fought the Spanish for a share in the trade and eventually came to dominate it. Nineteen eighty-four was a transformative year for David Olusoga. Ironically, one of the sources we can turn to in order to learn more is his own accounts of late 17th-century Jamaica. Make sure it doesnt happen in the least costly way. Supported by African authors of slave narratives such as Olaudah Equiano and Ottabah Cugoano, they held meetings all over the country, attracting huge crowds. 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. Had a vault for the more inflammatory pieces. 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. 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. 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. 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. No one has said we should not consider someone elses viewpoint. After all, adult males were all but worthless and demand for women might have been enough to drive the trade anyway. "He was the voice of somebody who wasn't speaking about the past as a historian, but was living it. It was the first of the slave narratives that I'd ever read and I found it astonishing.". No member of my family ever owned slaves. There is no reason to think one system was more or less brutal than the other. So my advice would be, for his own health, STFU. As for the future, the University of Manchester professor says younger generations give him hope. 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. It could have ended earlier, but the planter interests in parliament defeated William Wilberforces attempts. 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. 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. (Im just presenting the case here in reality there are obviously some big questions about the logic of Nuremberg etc, just as there are questions about how judges in Common Law occasionally summon up things as if they had always and forever been a part of the Law, albeit previously unrecorded, rather than something the judge just made up.). Although the bottom line is that no Black person remembers slavery. 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. 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? 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. But werent they lucky compared to the other Germans in Stalingrad? I learned the hard way. 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. How would Nigeria treat a foreigner like him? 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. No? Olusoga poses as an objective historian and says he is not there to bring comfort to people. Probably few other societies had as much chance of buying freedom. Read about our approach to external linking. A fifty quid note in the hand of the first black bloke you encounter. And they will go looking for parts of the past that aren't on the curriculum, and they evidently do. 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.". "They do not want British history to be a catalogue of heroes and victories and glorious chapters," he says. Peter completed his award-winning PhD, exploring stress and coping in elite sports coaching, at Sheffield Hallam in 2012. June 16, 2020 - 20:29 BST Aisha Nozari. It does not take people long to starve to death and slaves were paid for. As he states, The oral history of 20th-century racial violence has never been collected or collated, but it is thereand it is shocking.. Over 1000 years in Britain. That someone did something 200 years ago means double ought nothing. But morals are very transient things. 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. In 1787, they met in London and set up the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Reasonable estimates have some 50% of the inhabitants of the Sokoto Caliphate as late as the late 19th cent being slaves. I think a case could be made. 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. "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. 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.. Definitely didnt die out with the Romans. But any planter who deliberately starved his slaves to death would quickly go bust. Yet American slave-produced raw cotton continued to feed the 4,500 mills of Lancashire. Olusoga is just getting even because he was attacked by the right when he was a teenager. Both groups today, especially the former, could reasonably claim historic persecution has reduced their present income and wealth. ), Who is fundamentally right about reparations for slavery? Prof Olusoga is not the only person who has been drawn to Equiano's story. Dr Peter Olusoga is a senior psychology lecturer at Sheffield Hallam university. Would also apply even if down a different family line there had been beneficiaries of the slave trade. people like Olusoga would have to pay their share of the greatly increased taxes It can be withdrawn. "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. His dad met his mom at the city's university in the 1960s. As it happens, I dont believe in sins of the fathers passing down the generations. 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). "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. 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. 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. Oblong, Whitey bad, give me cash? I dont think the traders can be given a pass on this front either., Just means they werent alone in being in the wrong.. Even Bill Clinton had affinity for the USA. I can then give him the details of other descendants, he can apologise to and compensate. 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. Should black history be taught all year round? You lost those two. First launched in London in 1987, it aims to highlight and celebrate what black people have achieved in Britain throughout history. 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. Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. Have you ever read the account by Ibn Fadlan of a Viking funeral in Russia? * the legal institution and pretty much the practice 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). 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. BLM is after political or financial advantages because of slavery. Hundreds of White women raped every day. And so, equipped with the fruits of Islamic learning (new navigational instruments, books on astronomy and trigonometry), European explorers set sail for Africa to relieve the natives of their gold. He also studied at the University of Liverpool and so benefits from slavery as much as anyone else. It seems absurd to me that anyone should be concerned about what happened 200 or 500 years ago. You can pay all the reparation for historical slavery related wrongs, real or imaginary, you want. In the UK its not white people enslaving blacks anymore, but Asians enslaving other Asians, as in Leicesters clothing sweatshops. His current research focuses on stress, burnout, and wellbeing in sports, with a particular interest in high-performance environments and elite coaching. It died out with the Romans leaving, and its non-legality repeatedly reaffirmed from the reign of the early Normans onwards.. She wasnt interested in my academic pursuit. (As the first person to mention the Sokoto Caliphate ahh, forget it.). The arguments do you want to get shaken down for several trillion? 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. The world has seen more slavery since its abolition than before. That was at the least unusual, particularly from a West European perspective bearing in mind the practice of slavery had pretty much fizzled out there. There is plenty of slavery about we just do not call it that. It built slave forts on the African coast, some such as Bunce Island in Sierra Leone furnished with a rape house. Societies have had a long history of treating minorities harshly. They are stupid false for America. This is because forgetting slavery means forgetting its victims. My first reaction, years and years ago, was thats awful. In 1986 I came across the book Staying Power by the British journalist Peter Fryer. Mans a loon. Their cities, as well as their comfort, will rapidly decay. Video, 00:02:30Should black history be taught all year round? The New Statesmans global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. Slavery is bad or it isnt. Not good. 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. Olusoga has written stand-alone history books as well as those accompanying his television series. 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? Those aged 11-14 have to be taught about the British Empire between 1745-1901, however the slave trade is one of nine examples given by the Department of Education on what can be taught. They all get it from White people inciting violence. How does it benefit anyone to make an issue about particular events? David Olusoga Historian, broadcaster and film-maker. In America few were castrated, which is why there are now >40 million descendants there. Nobody will stop you, honest. The argument isnt whether historical slavery was right or wrong or who should accept responsibility for it. Not a big fan of the odd human sacrifice Im afraid, even though I might just be of very partial Scandinavian descent myself. Olusoga patterns his narrative after Fryers, starting with the North African presence in Roman Britain. "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.". She had no interest in esoteric discussions of the war. Re putting the argument for paedophilia they actually gave Gide the Nobel prize for literature didnt they? Thousands of petitions were presented to parliament. I assume these were usually killed before Europeans turned up and bought them. More than a million copies were sold in Britain cheap pirated versions reached a mass readership. Then the second. Id agree that attitudes in the UK are approaching that situation, but theres still a long, long way to go yet. David Olusoga meets Janice Haber and her family, the descendents of Jewish . A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. Get back to me in seven years, when youre ready to order. "They're not looking to history only to make them feel good and give them comfort, but they're looking to history to tell them things about truths about their society that we have traditionally edited out of British history.". This is indeed tu quoque. Get back to us when youve developed your historicalguiltometer. Although I would expect the Germans, and perhaps even the Japanese, to be happy they lost the war. Not sure how sick this makes me. 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. This ignorant fellow should study historical facts, rather than believing and repeating lies and half-truths. From Roots. 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. 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. Olusogas ancestors will have participated in the capture of sale of slaves in Nigeria. And he might not find the society withdraws it nearly as comfortable for him to live in. Whoever has the upper-hand in power political, cultural, economic, military or whatever other form is decisive at that moment. Its a replay of the ecology nutters & the trannies. "They were barely known even to historians. They also ran a slave trade to the Ottoman empire and white slavery in the north without any help from Europeans. And so many hundreds of thousands of British workers were directly dependent on slavery (from sailors to those who built, rigged and repaired ships) that it was easy to turn a blind eye to the inhumanity. 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. But a group of 12 disciples of Christ set out to change things. What has Nigeria ever done for him? My family did nothing. Latin America for instance. Their demands should simply be refused. If you want to pay more tax, just write a cheque to HMRC and send it off. And yet anti-black race riots broke out in 1948 in Liverpool and in 1958 in Nottingham and Londons Notting Hill. I think it's an astonishing achievement.". You might have heard of a Romano-British chap called Patrick, got enslaved and nabbed to Ireland? David Olusoga's Family David Olusoga, age 49 was born to a Nigerian father and a British mother. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Theres an argument about judging people by the standard of their times, though even in the 1500s moral and religious objections to the slave trade had been made and the rationale of crimes against humanity is that some things are so abhorrent they could never truly be legal no matter what moral code the perpetrators justified themselves with. 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. Olusoga is of half Nigerian descent. Needless to say they should pay us reparations for this too. If the alternative was that they were killed? Thats fine, BraveFart. Viking Dublin was a major slave-trading centre (English, Irish, Scots, anyone else they could get their hands on). 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. Id say theres enormous dangers in treating this as if it was some public school debating society gig. Very little sugar on the mainland. He was immersed in it. David Olusoga is a 49-year-old historian and presenter Credit: Getty - Contributor David Olusoga is a British Nigerian historian, broadcaster and writer. . They are now CM scum and couldnt care less about America. The Sokoto Caliphate probably had as many slaves and a lot fewer free men as the Old South. In the USA? There is no reason to single White people out for unique levels of criticism. My argument is that Africans were probably happily killing each other for women before the West turned up. The problem with slavery is that it left us with their descendents and weak minded White populations. arguments are pretty weak since relying on a doctrine of virtues of the fathers risks implicitly accepting sins of the fathers.. A newsletter showcasing the finest writing from the ideas section, covering political ideas, philosophy, criticism and intellectual history - sent every Wednesday. It is a good deed that must not go unpunished. He presents a one sided and biased picture of slavery which takes no account of the African participation in it. Thats why when the question is raised, I always point out that they owe me lots and lots of money. You may concede a point here, a point there. Anglo-Saxons had slaves. A weekly round-up of some of the best articles featured in the most recent issue of the New Statesman, sent each Saturday. Or anything to do with slavery. 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. Cheap ass presentism. Shouldnt matter whether some long-dead relative fought long ago for or against (not at all to disparage your ancestors GC, who all sound very sound) in terms of whether somethings your fault. . 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. Olusoga is making an appeal to white guilt. 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. Anti-black riots broke out in Liverpool that year. Flyover Americans arent going to take it. Sooner or later, we whites are going to have to take a stand, and say we aint taking this any more. 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. He was a prominent figure in the campaign to abolish slavery. When Olusoga recalled the experience before television cameras last year, he wept. I cant see this one surviving people being expected to dig into their pockets for a few trillion. The agreement is being touted as a . Cest de la trs bonne dialectique conomique. It isnt going to happen anyway. 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. They may have been turning people they would have killed into a profitable commodity. 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. He is a Cultural Marxist trying to destroy the West. The arguments do you want to get shaken down for several trillion?. The historian tells Michael Segalov about getting up early, reading George Orwell, taking his dog George for a walk, playing his guitar (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. Now Im trying to imagine just what the strongest case for reparations might be, but even in this thought experiment its hard to see what the eligibility criteria for receiving payment should be, what sum should be due, how much proof is required of eligibility not everyone will have a good set of family records etc. Black and British: A Forgotten History 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. Over 150 years in America. 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.. Maybe someone should advise him to button his lip before he stirs up something he may not like. 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