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. Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. Whether they are too stupid to think of that remains to be seen. "I have," he admits, "a habit of . TV presenter David Olusoga has told the Edinburgh TV Festival his career had sometimes left him feeling "crushed, isolated," and "disempowered". at scales that were unusual in the long and varied history of slavery, and levels of brutality that stood out too.. "The phenomena of which he is iconic is one that we have written out, edited out of our nation. 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.". Would also apply even if down a different family line there had been beneficiaries of the slave trade. 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?). The Celtic version of slavery (which ran to quite a different model) was still going on in the places the Romans didnt reach. Tull played professional football for Northampton but instead of signing up for Glasgow Rangers, he enlisted. Fair point. 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. The system he witnessed and wrote about was one in which human beings were worked to death. It has been reissued by publishing house Hodder and Prof Olusoga has written the foreword. Black and British: A Forgotten History addresses one of the greatest silences in British historiography. Writing in english is cultural appropriation so STFU. "Equiano is the most important voice that we have from the British experience of slavery and the slave trade," he said. . And the transatlantic slave trade? In 1860, cotton goods accounted for 40 per cent of all British exports. BZZZTT!! Obama had none. I havent the faintest idea whether slavery in the Roman controlled areas of Britain was more along the continental Roman model or retained Celtic characteristics. Watching @worstall execute @richardjmurphy is like watching a very, very clever cat slowly killing at ataxic mouse. By this logic, we ought to sue the African American community. It is a good deed that must not go unpunished. 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. Why are these characterizations needed? Then the second. 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. 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. 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? Though I dont know where wed get $12 trillion in Confederate currency. But Muslims were enslaving white Europeans into Africa long before the Atlantic route, usually castrating the males. "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.". 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. They all get it from White people inciting violence. Prof Olusoga is not the only person who has been drawn to Equiano's story. I am happy with Olusogo paying reparations to himself. Quite possibly slave-raiding Gaels before that. Sugar plantations were bad. 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. Slavery is bad or it isnt. I havent said anything about my personal sense of guilt or responsibility. MBE: The problem with the UK paying reparations is that people like Olusoga would have to pay their share of the greatly increased taxes. 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. What do you think their stongest argument is? They may not be happy about Dresden or Hiroshima but their lives are much better. 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 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. This is indeed tu quoque. History is just one awful thing after another. First launched in London in 1987, it aims to highlight and celebrate what black people have achieved in Britain throughout history. Sure. It wasnt always so & it may not be in the future. 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. His exposure to Nigerian culture seems quite limited. The book accompanying. Now they do. 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. Jamaicans and Nigerians used to hate each other. So this race baiter can try his guilt trip on someone else. Sooner or later, we whites are going to have to take a stand, and say we aint taking this any more. 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. Thats fine, BraveFart. David Olusoga, 49, is a television presenter and historian. So 10.416 were sold by the Africans every month for one hundred years, There will be no peace on this issue until black people acknowledge their own responsibility for the trade. Needless to say they should pay us reparations for this too. David then moved with his mother and three siblings in the north-east of the UK. BLM is after political or financial advantages because of slavery. White people will take it. He talks about slavery because YOU care. 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. Even Bill Clinton had affinity for the USA. And this of course neatly addresses MBEs arguments. John Mandeville, whose travelogue (circa 1356) was one of the most widely translated books of the later Middle Ages, presented Africans as naked savages living amid heaps of gold to which they gave no value. The world has seen more slavery since its abolition than before. Video, 1894 shipwreck confirms tale of treacherous lifeboat, BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3: The Meaning of Zong, BBC Bitesize: The Zong 1781-1783 - The triangular trade, during a debate on Black History and Cultural Diversity in the Curriculum, Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Explosive found in check-in luggage at US airport, Fungus case forces Jack Daniels to halt construction, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, Fire knocks out half of Argentina's power grid, Havana Syndrome unlikely to have hostile cause - US, Starbucks illegally fired workers over union - judge. It isnt happening now. It could have ended earlier, but the planter interests in parliament defeated William Wilberforces attempts. Indeed in many cases, whose ancestors didnt even live in France or England at the relevant time. Fired by religious feeling, they embarked on a campaign of public education and political lobbying unprecedented in scale and revolutionary in nature. Giles Terera, the Olivier award-winning British performer who starred in the popular theatre production Hamilton, has . 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. 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. Your email address will not be published. Oblong, No other race / culture was willing and able to do that. Hundreds of White women raped every day. 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. Do I feel like I had anything to do it? In the USA? . 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. 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.. That was when the Democrats were still Americans. Peter Pan & Wendy is a live-action reimagining of the J.M . @ Boganboy But that is not the argument I am making. He presents a one sided and biased picture of slavery which takes no account of the African participation in it. 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. Olusoga is just getting even because he was attacked by the right when he was a teenager. . His book is a product of that childhood terror, and partly an exploration of his condition as a black Briton. 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. Some were sold to other African tribes and the rest kept as slaves. A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. I assume these were usually killed before Europeans turned up and bought them. Inflaming the reader has no purpose relative to 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.. Once insignificant villages, great cities such as Liverpool, Bristol and Glasgow sprang up on the profits of slavery. There is no reason to think one system was more or less brutal than the other. 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 presented the recent series of A House Through Time on BBC 2, and Black and British: A Forgotten History. It died out with the Romans leaving, and its non-legality repeatedly reaffirmed from the reign of the early Normans onwards.. 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. David Olusoga meets Janice Haber and her family, the descendents of Jewish . In 1787, they met in London and set up the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. And the third, fourth, fifth, and so on. Anybody can do this. 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. Required fields are marked *. He is the undisputed King of the Internet Pedants and Lord of the Unnecessary Snark. Its extraordinary success rested upon the foundation of sympathy laid down during the previous 70 years of abolitionist activity in Britain. June 16, 2020 - 20:29 BST Aisha Nozari. 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. His rhetoric is to inflame the reader. So is Richard Murphy. 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? It was far too real to her. Nor do I think that sugar is worse than cotton. 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. The New Statesmans global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. Pretty much everybody in the West is against slavery. The thing we British are ancestrally responsible for is beginning and continuing to pursue the extinction of the sordid business of slavery. Although I would expect the Germans, and perhaps even the Japanese, to be happy they lost the war. How would Nigeria treat a foreigner like him? Cotton was a completely different slave economy. Latin America for instance. 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). While I dont think they persuaded anyone, they did shift perspectives a bit. The German survivors of Stalingrad were sent to camps and most of them worked to death. I can then give him the details of other descendants, he can apologise to and compensate. How does importing new labour from West Africa solve the food shortage in the West Indies? Olusoga poses as an objective historian and says he is not there to bring comfort to people. After decades of complaints, the Royal African Company lost its monopoly in 1712 and, Olusoga writes, Independent traders were turned loose upon the shores of Africa. These traders had argued (stone-blind to irony) that the right to enslave Africans was a defining feature of English freedom and that the Royal African Company had breached their status as free-born Englishmen. The Coldest Case in Laramie: yet another bleak true crime podcast, From Sophie Mackintosh to Stephen Moss: new books reviewed in short, Universal Credit falls short of covering the bare essentials. 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. Which of those societies does Olusogas ancestry come from? And, of course, being half white, he is only entitled to half the reparation payment. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. This ignorant fellow should study historical facts, rather than believing and repeating lies and half-truths. Country Star Kacey Musgraves: Voting for Trump Is an Act of Violence. For some peculiar reason possibly because theres a section of Western society has become very insecure about its own position its being some credence. Olusoga was born in Lagos to a White mother and a Nigerian father - who, I hate to say nautrally, did a runner. Blacks like Mr Olusoga despite endlessly banging on about it seem to overlook the fact that they are in a minority. It was the first of the slave narratives that I'd ever read and I found it astonishing.". 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. Will Britain change? 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? In the UK its not white people enslaving blacks anymore, but Asians enslaving other Asians, as in Leicesters clothing sweatshops. I have done nothing. 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. They have a game plan & youre falling for it. A fifty quid note in the hand of the first black bloke you encounter. But you need a different approach if you dont think great-grandkids of the Confederacy are still fair game.) Maybe Europeans did increase demand. I doubt that they are now firmly united in a common cause. The historian and producer said he wanted to. I agree BIS. Cheap ass presentism. I cant see this one surviving people being expected to dig into their pockets for a few trillion. That assumes an increase in demand. He previously worked at JP Morgan for 18 years in a number of senior roles and was . Peter Olusoga. Nobody will stop you, honest. Davids all done. The arguments do you want to get shaken down for several trillion?. 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. 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. It may have made sense for the SS to starve labourers to death. 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. The best and brightest minds in the UK defended Stalins slavery. 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. Was never entirely sure which bits were believed and which bits were just a fun bit of intellectual muscle-flexing couldnt all have been intended seriously since so many posts contradicted each other. Prof Olusoga, the presenter of the A House Through Time TV series, calls it an act of "historical salvage" to bring to the fore the black British figures who had been "lost in the archives, completely forgotten". Fought to STOP southern independence. Over 150 years in America. Thankfully the Woke have gifted us an all purpos3e response to this sort of crap. Its been banned for two centuries in Britain. But Ill tell you what, slavery and human sacrifice, still awful. Joining them is Psychologist and Lecturer at Lancaster University, Dr David Tod, for a fascinating conversation about the psychology of acting. Thousands of petitions were presented to parliament. We are told that an estimated 12.5 million slaves were shipped from Africa to the West Indies and elsewhere in the 18th century. 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. The South Sea bubble, the greatest financial crash of the 18th century, was intimately connected to Britains dealings with Africa, though this is rarely acknowledged by historians. Theres a flaw in arguments of the form frankly you should be glad I murdered your sister, since had I not done so, its quite possible though we cannot be sure that someone else would have tortured her then murdered her, which is even worse, so whos the real criminal? Which is that I still murdered your sister. Both groups today, especially the former, could reasonably claim historic persecution has reduced their present income and wealth. not at all to disparage your ancestors GC. He was Chairman of Moneysupermarket Group from 2014 to 2019 and Senior Independent Director of Close Brothers Group plc from 2006 to 2014 and is a Past President of the Chartered Management Institute. I just dont really get what Olusoga is saying. "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. White people are unique in ending slavery across the world*. It isnt going to happen anyway. Definitely didnt die out with the Romans. Check out the trailer for Peter Pan & Wendy, an upcoming live-action movie directed by David Lowery. If we look back history is just an unending series of atrocities. Hes insisting that a household headed by a 21 year old black should have the average wealth of all white households. Would probably have taken your suggestion as a challenge. 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. The masses who once supported black freedom now campaigned for the Deep South. No member of my family ever owned slaves. What difference has it made? Abolition was the first mass philanthropic movement in Britain, and it ended the slave trade in 1807. 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. Married an American GI after the war. How could Britain, a civilised and Christian nation, indulge in rape, torture, killing and the forced labour of Africans over two centuries? A covering letter would be a courtesy but probably not a necessity. I assume he is not very bright and Race Hustling is very lucrative. Prof Olusoga says statues, such as those of slave traders . Black and British: A Forgotten History The argument isnt whether historical slavery was right or wrong or who should accept responsibility for it. (Britain expended blood and treasure on ending the slave trade, and thereby paid its moral debt already is one way of trying to resolve it, but rather unsatisfactory at righting the wrongs done to those who had already fallen victim to the trade.) Like I said before, tolerance is in the gift of the powerful. No? Flyover Americans arent going to take it. Good point, I wonder how he squares the obviously comfortable living he has writing, opining and broadcasting about slavery with his principles. David Olusoga Historian, broadcaster and film-maker. When Olusoga recalled the experience before television cameras last year, he wept. 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