Peter completed his award-winning PhD, exploring stress and coping in elite sports coaching, at Sheffield Hallam in 2012. For almost 60 years, there was impasse. Its extraordinary success rested upon the foundation of sympathy laid down during the previous 70 years of abolitionist activity in Britain. You might have heard of a Romano-British chap called Patrick, got enslaved and nabbed to Ireland? 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 . He previously worked at JP Morgan for 18 years in a number of senior roles and was . 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. Youre right, MBE. Check out the trailer for Peter Pan & Wendy, an upcoming live-action movie directed by David Lowery. As for the future, the University of Manchester professor says younger generations give him hope. Surely the US has already spent much more than that on black Americans. I can then give him the details of other descendants, he can apologise to and compensate. But Ill tell you what, slavery and human sacrifice, still awful. My first reaction, years and years ago, was thats awful. White people will take it. 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. 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. As a nation, we still have only a dim understanding of the slave system that funded Sloanes collecting. Not sure theyd do that with modern sensibilities mind you. Welsh slave-raids into England continued until early Norman times. Ironically, one of the sources we can turn to in order to learn more is his own accounts of late 17th-century Jamaica. it was cheaper, at times, to starve people and then replace them Needless to say they should pay us reparations for this too. Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. And any reparations should be paid 50% by the African states for the areas which sold the slaves and pocketed the proceeds. 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. Olusogas ancestors will have participated in the capture of sale of slaves in Nigeria. However, it applies to at least 80% of Americans. More than a million copies were sold in Britain cheap pirated versions reached a mass readership. And the third, fourth, fifth, and so on. 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. That someone did something 200 years ago means double ought nothing. My great, great, grandfather was one. You can pay all the reparation for historical slavery related wrongs, real or imaginary, you want. Sugar plantations were bad. 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. It costs money to replace them and after a famine the price of slaves would rise. My great grandfather fought to end slavery in a war. A fifty quid note in the hand of the first black bloke you encounter. So my advice would be, for his own health, STFU. I think a case could be made. (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. The masses who once supported black freedom now campaigned for the Deep South. He presents a one sided and biased picture of slavery which takes no account of the African participation in it. In dealing with the black contribution to the First World War, for example, he cites popular gratitude and admiration for black Britons among them Walter Tull, who fought on the Western Front. Anybody can do this. 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. Peter Olusoga. 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). But a group of 12 disciples of Christ set out to change things. 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. Make sure it doesnt happen in the least costly way. 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. 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 just dont really get what Olusoga is saying. And Britain worked for the whole of the 19th century to put down slavery in Africa. They did not care much for adult males. The vast majority of Americans are not guilty. "We are on a journey in this country and other countries are on similar journeys to try and reconnect to parts of our history that had traditionally been edited out," adds Prof Olusoga. The 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. 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. Thousands of petitions were presented to parliament. Olusoga is making an appeal to white guilt. But Muslims were enslaving white Europeans into Africa long before the Atlantic route, usually castrating the males. 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.. There is no reason to think one system was more or less brutal than the other. . (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.). The Westman Islands of Iceland have an interesting history in terms of European slavery a major rebellion of presumably mostly Irish (Westmen) slaves was put down there in the typically brutal Scandinavian manner, hence the name, but in the 1600s the local inhabitants were themselves enslaved by Barbary pirates and taken to Algiers, from where a few were ransomed back and one wrote about the experience. Long after he had published Corydon, his defence of pederasty. Then the second. Olusoga patterns his narrative after Fryers, starting with the North African presence in Roman Britain. 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. That may have caused more violence. In America few were castrated, which is why there are now >40 million descendants there. During the Second World War, thousands of black American soldiers stationed in Britain were befriended by white Britons who opposed efforts by the white military to segregate them. * the legal institution and pretty much the practice Or anything to do with slavery. The people in Portland, Seattle and Kenosha are too decadent to fight back. Olusoga is just getting even because he was attacked by the right when he was a teenager. He updates Fryer, citing radioisotope analysis of skeletons and craniometrics, which support written documentation of Aurelian Moors guarding Hadrians Wall and settling in places such as Yorkshire. 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. David Olusoga's Family David Olusoga, age 49 was born to a Nigerian father and a British mother. It's against this backdrop that Black British History Month was created. 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. 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. 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. Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade is part of the national curriculum, although it is not statutory. 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. Well the universe has a law of gravity but it doesnt have a law of should there be reparations. 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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. Sure. But maybe they did not. David Olusoga meets Janice Haber and her family, the descendents of Jewish . Blacks like Mr Olusoga despite endlessly banging on about it seem to overlook the fact that they are in a minority. Sloane witnessed and later became part of a system ruled by terror. You can be redeemed, you worthless pasty people. I assume he is not very bright and Race Hustling is very lucrative. ), Who is fundamentally right about reparations for slavery? His current research focuses on stress, burnout, and wellbeing in sports, with a particular interest in high-performance environments and elite coaching. Instead the racket still goes on with endless boatloads of illegals swarming into Europe. Prof Olusoga says statues, such as those of slave traders . That is a strawman argument at its best. They may not be happy about Dresden or Hiroshima but their lives are much better. 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. 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. Required fields are marked *. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr_Gide, Less flippantly, Western countries are not of one mind when it comes to the age of consent sex with a 14 year-old is legal in some countries, criminal in others (yes yes, paedophilia versus ephebophilia etc, you got me). Very little sugar on the mainland. Id agree that attitudes in the UK are approaching that situation, but theres still a long, long way to go yet. 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. Although the bottom line is that no Black person remembers slavery. It was the first of the slave narratives that I'd ever read and I found it astonishing.". . No. Abolition was the first mass philanthropic movement in Britain, and it ended the slave trade in 1807. You dont have esoteric discussions with paedophiles any more than you would with serial killers. Later his parents separated from each other when he was just two years old. Married an American GI after the war. 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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?). 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. Watching @worstall execute @richardjmurphy is like watching a very, very clever cat slowly killing at ataxic mouse. The New Statesmans global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. I brought up paedophilia to demonstrate that there are things not worth my time. So he calls himself a Geordie. 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. Its entirely possible to think something was awful without feeling the slightest twinge of guilt or personal responsibility. It could have ended earlier, but the planter interests in parliament defeated William Wilberforces attempts. The following decades were taken up with popular and political rhetoric about immigration and parliamentary acts to limit blacks coming to Britain. Like I said before, tolerance is in the gift of the powerful. Dr Peter Olusoga is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology. Even did something positive. In the 15th and 16th centuries, thousands of pounds of gold were shipped to Europe. Prof Olusoga is not the only person who has been drawn to Equiano's story. What do you think their stongest argument is? They organised a boycott of sugar, produced more petitions and hosted meetings. Olusoga is of half Nigerian descent. Writing in english is cultural appropriation so STFU. June 16, 2020 - 20:29 BST Aisha Nozari. (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.) Fought to STOP southern independence. It is about the centuries-long engagement with Africa, a consequence of which is the black presence in Britain. What has he got to say about that? It isnt happening now. 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. Should black history be taught all year round? But werent they lucky compared to the other Germans in Stalingrad? 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. By this logic, we ought to sue the African American community. 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. In 1986 I came across the book Staying Power by the British journalist Peter Fryer. The book accompanying. And they will go looking for parts of the past that aren't on the curriculum, and they evidently do. 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 does not take people long to starve to death and slaves were paid for. 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. I know. When I met her, ~1995, I started asking her questions about the war, as I thought she was a fabulous resource of information. In 1860, cotton goods accounted for 40 per cent of all British exports. The Celtic version of slavery (which ran to quite a different model) was still going on in the places the Romans didnt reach. This is because forgetting slavery means forgetting its victims. Oblong, 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. Various among the societies that were agglomerated into Nigeria were more or less involved in that slave trade from the supply end. This ignorant fellow should study historical facts, rather than believing and repeating lies and half-truths. Less flippantly, Western countries are not of one mind when it comes to the age of consent sex with a 14 year-old is legal in some countries, criminal in others (yes yes, paedophilia versus ephebophilia etc, you got me).. Nineteen eighty-four was a transformative year for David Olusoga. Africans had a demand for female slaves. Women such as Elizabeth Heyrick continued to lobby for the abolition of slavery. Its been banned for two centuries in Britain. It can be withdrawn. The Russians do not have these problems because they are not ashamed. "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. You lost those two. 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. While I dont think they persuaded anyone, they did shift perspectives a bit. Read about our approach to external linking. 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. David Olusoga His rhetoric is to inflame the reader. Good point, I wonder how he squares the obviously comfortable living he has writing, opining and broadcasting about slavery with his principles. Not good. It has been reissued by publishing house Hodder and Prof Olusoga has written the foreword. Even discussing it gives your opponents arguments merit. Prof Olusoga says statues, such as those of slave traders . P rofessor David Olusoga is reviewing a disorientating year from a familiar place: his white-painted study, the one with the guitars hanging from its walls. Then, in October, came a breakthrough. Once insignificant villages, great cities such as Liverpool, Bristol and Glasgow sprang up on the profits of slavery. They have a game plan & youre falling for it. If more African-Americans started to vote Republican and the Democrats felt they needed something radical to boost their offer, and had enough support from liberal whites and other groups to risk further losses among blue-collar whites, for example. I was uncomfortable using it. 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. She had no interest in esoteric discussions of the war. How does importing new labour from West Africa solve the food shortage in the West Indies? (As the first person to mention the Sokoto Caliphate ahh, forget it.). It is a form of self-loathing. Over 150 years in America. No other race / culture was willing and able to do that. There is no reason to think that slavery was nicer in Africa. I cant see this one surviving people being expected to dig into their pockets for a few trillion. 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. Quite possibly slave-raiding Gaels before that. Its very noticable how nobodys mentioning that the Spanish Empire were doing this for several centuries before the British got involved. TV historian David Olusoga claims it is "palpable nonsense" to say that removing controversial statues "somehow impoverishes history". One of his teachers had a coffee mug bearing a National Front slogan and another attacked him during a school trip, he said. 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. 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 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 you need a different approach if you dont think great-grandkids of the Confederacy are still fair game.) 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