For almost 60 years, there was impasse. Olusoga, who is half-Nigerian, traces this focus to his mother telling him when he was a child that Nigerian soldiers served in World War II. But werent they lucky compared to the other Germans in Stalingrad? Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. 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. This is because forgetting slavery means forgetting its victims. Required fields are marked *. 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. How would Nigeria treat a foreigner like him? Your email address will not be published. Guess wed have to print it. 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. Then, in October, came a breakthrough. The following decades were taken up with popular and political rhetoric about immigration and parliamentary acts to limit blacks coming to Britain. First launched in London in 1987, it aims to highlight and celebrate what black people have achieved in Britain throughout history. Davids all done. Not sure how sick this makes me. 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. Not to say it was nice. It has been reissued by publishing house Hodder and Prof Olusoga has written the foreword. This year, return to Neverland. His exposure to Nigerian culture seems quite limited. 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. 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. 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. When Olusoga recalled the experience before television cameras last year, he wept. 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 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. It wasnt always so & it may not be in the future. Fired by religious feeling, they embarked on a campaign of public education and political lobbying unprecedented in scale and revolutionary in nature. Supported by African authors of slave narratives such as Olaudah Equiano and Ottabah Cugoano, they held meetings all over the country, attracting huge crowds. 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. You might have heard of a Romano-British chap called Patrick, got enslaved and nabbed to Ireland? Anybody can do this. Olusoga is making an appeal to white guilt. 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. I have that estimate saved and ready to be critiqued as part of a larger project. Mans a loon. 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. No other race / culture was willing and able to do that. No doubt life expectancy of a slave was shorter than that for a free man. Looking at what happened in Haiti or Jamaica or chunks of Latin America, I dont find either well, could have been much worse or what do you expect, Early Modern West Europeans, how could they have known better? to be particularly convincing responses. Its a shame The best and brightest minds in the UK defended Stalins slavery. Both groups today, especially the former, could reasonably claim historic persecution has reduced their present income and wealth. 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. Would also apply even if down a different family line there had been beneficiaries of the slave trade. I assume he is not very bright and Race Hustling is very lucrative. Just as how in the 16th century the anti-slavery voices in Europe were overwhelmed, and in the 19th century the abolitionists won out. White people are unique in ending slavery across the world*. White people will take it. Even discussing it gives your opponents arguments merit. That is not true. The exception is Tim Worstall, who is truly the Ron Jeremy of blogging. 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. And they will go looking for parts of the past that aren't on the curriculum, and they evidently do. Dont know if I would rule it out entirely because the demographics are different but it might need a change in the voting dynamics. He writes to inflame white guilt, so that you will ACCEPT destruction of your culture. More than a million copies were sold in Britain cheap pirated versions reached a mass readership. "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. 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. Have you ever read the account by Ibn Fadlan of a Viking funeral in Russia? Over 1000 years in Britain. It isnt happening now. After all, adult males were all but worthless and demand for women might have been enough to drive the trade anyway. Cheap ass presentism. Anglo-Saxons had slaves. Needless to say they should pay us reparations for this too. They have a game plan & youre falling for it. Re putting the argument for paedophilia they actually gave Gide the Nobel prize for literature didnt they? I doubt that they are now firmly united in a common cause. And, of course, being half white, he is only entitled to half the reparation payment. I cant see this one surviving people being expected to dig into their pockets for a few trillion. Britain was happy to force the Bevan Boys down coal mines. 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. David Olusoga's Family David Olusoga, age 49 was born to a Nigerian father and a British mother. 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. Sloane witnessed and later became part of a system ruled by terror. 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. 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. It was, I believe, the first book I ever bought for myself with my own money. The historian and producer said he wanted to. So he calls himself a Geordie. David Olusoga, introduces his book Black and British, an exploration of the relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa. Of course if a rule was instituted that only people with white skins had to pay taxes, it might happen. 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. (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. Prof Olusoga says statues, such as those of slave traders . Its extraordinary success rested upon the foundation of sympathy laid down during the previous 70 years of abolitionist activity in Britain. I am not so sure about that although it is another argument. 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. Fair point. It was the first of the slave narratives that I'd ever read and I found it astonishing.". 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. 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. Like the Nigerian slavers who enslaved and sold the slaves, you mean? 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. Not good. 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. 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. (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.). David Olusoga There is plenty of slavery about we just do not call it that. Should black history be taught all year round? . Now they do. They included Josiah Wedgwood (the pottery entrepreneur), Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson. Some were sold to other African tribes and the rest kept as slaves. Get back to me in seven years, when youre ready to order. In 1787, they met in London and set up the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. (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. 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.. I learned the hard way. (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.) Even did something positive. Obama had none. I was uncomfortable using it. The vast majority of Americans are not guilty. There is no reason to single White people out for unique levels of criticism. By a Senegalese author: The veiled genocide = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxc5ENT8ajg, MyBurningEars August 30, 2020 at 11:52 am Slavery within West African societies being different again I dont think the places with very high rates of local slavery were anything like the sugar plantations. 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. David Olusoga Historian, broadcaster and film-maker. Whitey bad, give me cash? "They do not want British history to be a catalogue of heroes and victories and glorious chapters," he says. For some peculiar reason possibly because theres a section of Western society has become very insecure about its own position its being some credence. The Celtic version of slavery (which ran to quite a different model) was still going on in the places the Romans didnt reach. 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. And that still stands even if there really are a bunch of torturing murderers out there too. Tim says there might be some truth to them for the Caribbean. They all get it from White people inciting violence. Olusoga brilliantly reveals such contradictions in British society. Maybe someone should advise him to button his lip before he stirs up something he may not like. Olusoga has benefited from and added significantly to the work of Fryer and other historians such as James Walvin. Not a big fan of the odd human sacrifice Im afraid, even though I might just be of very partial Scandinavian descent myself. arguments are pretty weak since relying on a doctrine of virtues of the fathers risks implicitly accepting sins of the fathers.. "I have," he admits, "a habit of . The Barbados slave code of 1661 stripped Africans of all human rights, and set out ways in which they were to be punished, to exert control over their labour (mutilation of the face, slitting of nostrils, castration, execution). 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. 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. Such sources give his writing freshness, originality and compassion. 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. No one has said we should not consider someone elses viewpoint. You lost those two. Id say the same to the Black Lives Matter people. My family did nothing. Over 150 years in America. 5 quotes from David Olusoga: 'On a peninsula protruding into one of the great highways of the Atlantic slave trade, a few hundred refugees from British slavery in North America were attempting to recreate the social structures of Northern Europe in the Middle Ages.', 'Time and again events and phenomena that we think we know and understand contain within them lost or camouflaged connections to . Very little sugar on the mainland. So how much have considered paedophilia? I imagine few do. Married an American GI after the war. 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. people like Olusoga would have to pay their share of the greatly increased taxes 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. Country Star Kacey Musgraves: Voting for Trump Is an Act of Violence. 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. 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. Read about our approach to external linking. Peter Olusoga. Id say theres enormous dangers in treating this as if it was some public school debating society gig. From Roots. . But morals are very transient things. The agreement is being touted as a . Giles Terera, the Olivier award-winning British performer who starred in the popular theatre production Hamilton, has . But you need a different approach if you dont think great-grandkids of the Confederacy are still fair game.) Instead the racket still goes on with endless boatloads of illegals swarming into Europe. Fought to STOP southern independence. Their demands should simply be refused. Its a replay of the ecology nutters & the trannies. Dr Peter Olusoga is a senior psychology lecturer at Sheffield Hallam university. I have done nothing. "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. 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. Well one economist has worked out the amount to be paid (although not on a damages basis, when one imagines blacks might end up paying whites, but on a close the wealth gap basis): A renowned economist has said that $12 trillion should be afforded to black Americans in reparation for slavery to help the close wealth gap. 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. Oh man. It costs money to replace them and after a famine the price of slaves would rise. It was such a brilliantly organised programme of mass protest that slavery was declared abolished in 1833: 46,000 slave owners were given 20m in compensation (17bn in todays money), the largest payout in British history and 40 per cent of all government spending that year. Everyone was. Grew up in Quedlinburg. It was far too real to her. 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 German survivors of Stalingrad were sent to camps and most of them worked to death. 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? 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. BZZZTT!! Quite possibly slave-raiding Gaels before that. We pretend we do not like slavery but actually we do not like slave traders. 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. And even if you personally disagree with it, what would be the strongest argument for some form of legal settlement? 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. Inflaming the reader has no purpose relative to slavery. There is no reason to think that slavery was nicer in Africa. Oblong, Whether they are too stupid to think of that remains to be seen. Shouldnt Olusoga be writing in Ubangi bantu-language? You should know better. This ignorant fellow should study historical facts, rather than believing and repeating lies and half-truths. Pope Nicholas V gave his blessing, so long as the Vatican benefited. While I dont think they persuaded anyone, they did shift perspectives a bit. You know, entirely ignoring lifetime effects? 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. 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. Sugar was king: originally a luxury, it became one of the main sources of calories for the British poor. The Russians do not have these problems because they are not ashamed. 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. Rather that certain western states, still in existence therefore potentially still liable, regulated and indeed encouraged the development of both the transatlantic slave trade and the slave-labour economic systems of the colonies, at scales that were unusual in the long and varied history of slavery, and levels of brutality that stood out too. A covering letter would be a courtesy but probably not a necessity. They arent going to concede anything. Slavery within West African societies being different again I dont think the places with very high rates of local slavery were anything like the sugar plantations. Then the adult men became profitable too. 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?). "I first read it as a student and it struck me as something that was very different to other things I was reading about the Atlantic slave trade. Make sure it doesnt happen in the least costly way. BLM is after political or financial advantages because of slavery. People seem pretty much agreed on what is right and what is wrong. Now sixteen sounds about okay to me if youre going to stick a limit somewhere, but then being British I suppose Im more likely to think the system Im accustomed to is normal and reasonable. Olusogas ancestors will have participated in the capture of sale of slaves in Nigeria. But its still awful, even on a historical scale. Certainly they killed them casually often for religious reasons. 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. Long after he had published Corydon, his defence of pederasty. He seems to be an interesting social historian and his TV series on the occupants of a single house over the centuries is very good, although I suspect a lot of the research is done by others, I look forward to an even handed expose of the entire slave trade from birth to capture, imprisonment, sale, transportation, arrival, sale, treatment and life while enslaved as well as the UKs role in stopping it, But it wont be on the BBC, and he wont be writing it I fear, @smfs He saw how enslaved people who had risen up were burnt to death, castrated or mutilated, punishments he regarded as merited. And, of course, being half white, he is only entitled to half the reparation payment. (As the first person to mention the Sokoto Caliphate ahh, forget it.). 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. It is a political campaign, not a contribution to academic history. This history of the black presence in . What do you think their stongest argument is? Britain should be proud of helping to stop (African to America) slavery, like the Republican Party and unlike the Democrats. How does it benefit anyone to make an issue about particular events? 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. Rather the constitution banned the slave trade and so it become economically worth it to make sure slaves lived longer. You can pay all the reparation for historical slavery related wrongs, real or imaginary, you want. @ Boganboy The answer is money. Get back to us when your sin/privilege is expunged. Or anything to do with slavery. "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. Abolition was the first mass philanthropic movement in Britain, and it ended the slave trade in 1807. Blacks like Mr Olusoga despite endlessly banging on about it seem to overlook the fact that they are in a minority. 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. Latin America for instance. It seems absurd to me that anyone should be concerned about what happened 200 or 500 years ago. In the USA? Youre right, MBE. There is the Push argument and the Pull argument. 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