It isnt going to happen anyway. But werent they lucky compared to the other Germans in Stalingrad? The historian and producer said he wanted to. "He was the voice of somebody who wasn't speaking about the past as a historian, but was living it. Prof Olusoga is not the only person who has been drawn to Equiano's story. First launched in London in 1987, it aims to highlight and celebrate what black people have achieved in Britain throughout history. That someone did something 200 years ago means double ought nothing. 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. Have you ever read the account by Ibn Fadlan of a Viking funeral in Russia? It could have ended earlier, but the planter interests in parliament defeated William Wilberforces attempts. 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. And that still stands even if there really are a bunch of torturing murderers out there too. Even Bill Clinton had affinity for the USA. My great grandfather fought to end slavery in a war. It costs money to replace them and after a famine the price of slaves would rise. 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. This history of the black presence in . 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. If their ancestors had remained in Africa would they be better off than they are now? This is a moral argument. 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. It was an apt university to experiment with such developments, since Lord Scarman, who reported on the Brixton riots of 1981, was its chancellor. But it is also likely that disease played a role. Africans had a demand for female slaves. 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. Of course if a rule was instituted that only people with white skins had to pay taxes, it might happen. No doubt life expectancy of a slave was shorter than that for a free man. "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.". They have a game plan & youre falling for it. Thousands of petitions were presented to parliament. If you want to pay more tax, just write a cheque to HMRC and send it off. June 16, 2020 - 20:29 BST Aisha Nozari. The Celtic version of slavery (which ran to quite a different model) was still going on in the places the Romans didnt reach. To me personally, this is the thing. The good news is that Black Lives Matter may be that trigger. Societies have had a long history of treating minorities harshly. The book accompanying. 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. For almost 60 years, there was impasse. Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. The rest of this looks like the usual white washing (so to speak) of African slavery. It can be withdrawn. And, of course, being half white, he is only entitled to half the reparation payment. 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. Check out the trailer for Peter Pan & Wendy, an upcoming live-action movie directed by David Lowery. You might have heard of a Romano-British chap called Patrick, got enslaved and nabbed to Ireland? What difference has it made? You know, entirely ignoring lifetime effects? Once insignificant villages, great cities such as Liverpool, Bristol and Glasgow sprang up on the profits of slavery. You may concede a point here, a point there. What do you think their stongest argument is? 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. 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. They did not care much for adult males. The masses who once supported black freedom now campaigned for the Deep South. Get back to us when youve developed your historicalguiltometer. Olusoga unloads all sorts of characterizations. You lost those two. . 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. Get back to me in seven years, when youre ready to order. 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. Black and British: A Forgotten History addresses one of the greatest silences in British historiography. That assumes an increase in demand. I have done nothing. I assume these were usually killed before Europeans turned up and bought them. it was cheaper, at times, to starve people and then replace them Youre right, MBE. 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.. They are stupid false for America. Joining them is Psychologist and Lecturer at Lancaster University, Dr David Tod, for a fascinating conversation about the psychology of acting. A House Through Time returned to BBC Two in May for its third season, and once again is fronted by historian extraordinaire David Olusoga. Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. 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. As it happens, I dont believe in sins of the fathers passing down the generations. 2023 BBC. Because it isnt about who you are, its about who your ancestors were. Like I said before, tolerance is in the gift of the powerful. The exception is Tim Worstall, who is truly the Ron Jeremy of blogging. This is because forgetting slavery means forgetting its victims. In the 15th and 16th centuries, thousands of pounds of gold were shipped to Europe. Olusogas ancestors will have participated in the capture of sale of slaves in Nigeria. Fair point. many African tribes kept slaves. Ironically, one of the sources we can turn to in order to learn more is his own accounts of late 17th-century Jamaica. Or they may discover how little black lives do matter. . I am not so sure about that although it is another argument. So is Richard Murphy. Indeed, third-century York may have been more ethnically and racially diverse than present-day York. 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. Dont know if I would rule it out entirely because the demographics are different but it might need a change in the voting dynamics. How does importing new labour from West Africa solve the food shortage in the West Indies? Giles Terera, the Olivier award-winning British performer who starred in the popular theatre production Hamilton, has . 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.. Its been banned for two centuries in Britain. Should almost go without saying except of course that it doesnt, since clearly not every culture has the same moral gut reaction to it that I do. In 1860, cotton goods accounted for 40 per cent of all British exports. A newsletter showcasing the finest writing from the ideas section, covering political ideas, philosophy, criticism and intellectual history - sent every Wednesday. Thats fine, BraveFart. Kyle Rittenhouse, unlike the rest of their sorry asses, did something. David Olusoga Historian, broadcaster and film-maker. Olusoga patterns his narrative after Fryers, starting with the North African presence in Roman Britain. When I met her, ~1995, I started asking her questions about the war, as I thought she was a fabulous resource of information. Should black history be taught all year round? . And tolerance is not a given. Such sources give his writing freshness, originality and compassion. Quite possibly slave-raiding Gaels before that. Tim says there might be some truth to them for the Caribbean. My family did nothing. We pretend we do not like slavery but actually we do not like slave traders. Blacks like Mr Olusoga despite endlessly banging on about it seem to overlook the fact that they are in a minority. 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. They deliberately bought skewed mostly male gender balance. Make sure it doesnt happen in the least costly way. The system he witnessed and wrote about was one in which human beings were worked to death. (As the first person to mention the Sokoto Caliphate ahh, forget it.). Olusogas stated purpose is to argue that black British history is not about migration and settlement, whether of black servants in the 18th century or black workers in the Windrush era. 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.. You should know better. It is a form of self-loathing. Some other buyer would have taken them if they werent shipped out, and Western (or Arab) traders were just changing the ownership and location, the sins of the slave-raiders being theirs alone to bear. Perhaps Im a bit more culturally relativist these days, but just read it again, still absolutely awful. Hey, we do not even have to go that far. ", TV historian rejects 'nonsense' over keeping statues, What Black History Month is - and why it matters. 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.. I have a peeve about the BBC genealogical show Who do you think you are? which I dont know whether has been inflected upon the Left Pond. Whitey bad, give me cash? Then dont discuss it. Roman writers such as Pliny who chronicled or rather fabricated African life shaped perceptions of a continent populated by anthropophagi and other fantastic creatures, half-human, half-animal. If black lives really mattered these people would be protesting the 500 shot dead so far by predominantly black men in Chicago this year. If we went down this route thered be goodness knows how much fun and games to be had with legal claims over the treatment of Irish by Cromwell, the clearing of the Highlands and so on, before you even get on to the globe-spanning imperial stuff. It's all down to people in their 20s, those at school and in their teens, who have a relationship with history which, says Prof Olusoga, is profoundly different from that of their parents and grandparents. arguments are pretty weak since relying on a doctrine of virtues of the fathers risks implicitly accepting sins of the fathers.. 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.". It isnt happening now. 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. That involved killing the adult men. 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. "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.". While I dont think they persuaded anyone, they did shift perspectives a bit. Id say this to Mr Olusoga. Both of these need proof. Societies have what morals suit them. is that the extra demand distorted the market, led directly to more armed slave-raiding expeditions against rival tribes and so on.. Prof David Olusoga has presented numerous documentaries including A House Through Time and Black and Black and British: A Forgotten History, Olaudah Equiano played a role in Britain's abolishment of slavery, Performer Giles Terera has written a play featuring Equiano, Prof Olusoga said when it was published, people did not believe the book was by an African as it was deemed so well written, Bernardine Evaristo (second left) has launched a series called Black Britain: Writing Back which features novels by black British authors that have been overlooked, Should black history be taught all year round? Very little sugar on the mainland. White communities suffer huge losses from Black crime. 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. 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. The arguments do you want to get shaken down for several trillion? Fired by religious feeling, they embarked on a campaign of public education and political lobbying unprecedented in scale and revolutionary in nature. It wasnt always so & it may not be in the future. 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. He also studied at the University of Liverpool and so benefits from slavery as much as anyone else. This is indeed tu quoque. 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. Certainly they killed them casually often for religious reasons. They arent going to concede anything. Maybe Europeans did increase demand. I brought up paedophilia to demonstrate that there are things not worth my time. One issue about Westerners buying slaves via a chain of commerce that often ultimately involved Africans selling other Africans at traditional slave-trading locations (there was some slave-raiding by Europeans directly, but rarer) is that the extra demand distorted the market, led directly to more armed slave-raiding expeditions against rival tribes and so on. 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. 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. ), Who is fundamentally right about reparations for slavery? Maybe someone should advise him to button his lip before he stirs up something he may not like. 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. The race obsessed Department of Education goes to considerable lengths to distinguish Caribbeans and West Africans. It was, I believe, the first book I ever bought for myself with my own money. Definitely didnt die out with the Romans. One of his teachers had a coffee mug bearing a National Front slogan and another attacked him during a school trip, he said. 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". 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. He presents a one sided and biased picture of slavery which takes no account of the African participation in it. His exposure to Nigerian culture seems quite limited. Wider imperialism reparations that include South Asia, China for the Opium Wars and so on, surely even more prohibitively costly, regardless of how effective the education system gets at making young Brits feel a vague sense of guilt about it all. Its extraordinary success rested upon the foundation of sympathy laid down during the previous 70 years of abolitionist activity in Britain. Its very noticable how nobodys mentioning that the Spanish Empire were doing this for several centuries before the British got involved. Its an interesting exercise to consider, given we live within such a system, how or whether that contradiction can be settled. So he calls himself a Geordie. There is no reason to think one system was more or less brutal than the other. @ Boganboy The agreement is being touted as a . The details of difference are fairly minor. Inflaming the reader has no purpose relative to slavery. Slavery is bad or it isnt. She wasnt interested in my academic pursuit. 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. There is the Push argument and the Pull argument. Pretty much everybody in the West is against slavery. Between that night at the opera and 1807, nearly 800,000 Africans were enslaved. It has been reissued by publishing house Hodder and Prof Olusoga has written the foreword. Good point, I wonder how he squares the obviously comfortable living he has writing, opining and broadcasting about slavery with his principles. Giles Terera, the Olivier award-winning British performer who starred in the popular theatre production Hamilton, has recently staged a play called the Meaning of Zong about the massacre of 132 enslaved Africans aboard the slave ship Zong in 1781 and the impact it had on Equiano. (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. Black history: Should it be part of the wider curriculum? Olusoga was born in Lagos to a White mother and a Nigerian father - who, I hate to say nautrally, did a runner. Abolition was the first mass philanthropic movement in Britain, and it ended the slave trade in 1807. A weekly round-up of some of the best articles featured in the most recent issue of the New Statesman, sent each Saturday. Olusoga has written stand-alone history books as well as those accompanying his television series. Although the bottom line is that no Black person remembers slavery. 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. 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. We do not know enough to be sure. By this logic, we ought to sue the African American community. 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. "This is a richer history as well as a necessary history; this is a more vivid history as well as a history that tells the back stories of more people in this country than the traditional narratives we've had.". 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. Later his parents separated from each other when he was just two years old. The point about slave descendants in Georgia being better off than descendants of slave sellers from West Africa is reasonably strong (though look back in everyones ancestry and youre likely to find, far back enough, a mix of slaves, owners and probably traders too). And any reparations should be paid 50% by the African states for the areas which sold the slaves and pocketed the proceeds. "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. 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. Peter completed his award-winning PhD, exploring stress and coping in elite sports coaching, at Sheffield Hallam in 2012. The people in Portland, Seattle and Kenosha are too decadent to fight back. 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. Video1894 shipwreck confirms tale of treacherous lifeboat, How 10% of Nigerian registered voters delivered victory, Sake brewers toast big rise in global sales, The Indian-American CEO who wants to be US president, Blackpink lead top stars back on the road in Asia, Exploring the rigging claims in Nigeria's elections, 'Wales is in England' gaffe sparks TikToker's trip. BLM is after political or financial advantages because of slavery. Olusoga is making an appeal to white guilt. . Latin America for instance. at scales that were unusual in the long and varied history of slavery, and levels of brutality that stood out too.. (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.). It is a political campaign, not a contribution to academic history. But there have been other societies with slavery where slaves had more autonomy and a greater chance of buying their freedom. We do not know how great the demand for women was. Sure. Will Britain change? Prof Olusoga says statues, such as those of slave traders . And the third, fourth, fifth, and so on. They also ran a slave trade to the Ottoman empire and white slavery in the north without any help from Europeans. Separated from home and family and landed in the West Indies (countless numbers dying of suffocation during the journey, given that the people traffickers were packing the holds to maximise profits), the Africans had no recourse to the law, much less the conscience of their captors. 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. The government has said the "flexibility within the history curriculum means that there is the opportunity for teachers to teach about BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) history across a spectrum of themes and eras" so it did "not believe it was necessary to change the curriculum". For several centuries before the British got involved goes to considerable lengths to distinguish and! 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