What would happen to that money, who knows, but as its (or was) your money, thats between you and your grifter of choice. Guess wed have to print it. Thousands of petitions were presented to parliament. Because it isnt about who you are, its about who your ancestors were. 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 learned the hard way. Read about our approach to external linking. Prof Olusoga says statues, such as those of slave traders . Prof Olusoga is not the only person who has been drawn to Equiano's story. Later his parents separated from each other when he was just two years old. 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. Long after he had published Corydon, his defence of pederasty. Their demands should simply be refused. (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. But its still awful, even on a historical scale. The agreement is being touted as a . 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. He previously worked at JP Morgan for 18 years in a number of senior roles and was . People seem pretty much agreed on what is right and what is wrong. But slaves were more valuable, so the British fought the Spanish for a share in the trade and eventually came to dominate it. 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. Cest de la trs bonne dialectique conomique. "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. Over 150 years in America. 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. Their cities, as well as their comfort, will rapidly decay. 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. It built slave forts on the African coast, some such as Bunce Island in Sierra Leone furnished with a rape house. Should black history be taught all year round? Indeed, third-century York may have been more ethnically and racially diverse than present-day York. 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. So is Richard Murphy. It was far too real to her. 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. 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. In 1796, a bill was defeated by only four votes: a group of abolitionist MPs went to the opera and missed the vote. Olusoga is just getting even because he was attacked by the right when he was a teenager. That is a strawman argument at its best. David Olusoga, 49, is a television presenter and historian. Once insignificant villages, great cities such as Liverpool, Bristol and Glasgow sprang up on the profits of slavery. In the USA? But there have been other societies with slavery where slaves had more autonomy and a greater chance of buying their freedom. 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. Just as how in the 16th century the anti-slavery voices in Europe were overwhelmed, and in the 19th century the abolitionists won out. The details of difference are fairly minor. 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. Reasonable estimates have some 50% of the inhabitants of the Sokoto Caliphate as late as the late 19th cent being slaves. Pretty much everybody in the West is against slavery. Fuck right off As a winning debating strategy. Forbes magazine's extraordinarily arrogant contributor Tim Worstall Jeremy Corbyn. First launched in London in 1987, it aims to highlight and celebrate what black people have achieved in Britain throughout history. Indeed in many cases, whose ancestors didnt even live in France or England at the relevant time. His exposure to Nigerian culture seems quite limited. And even if you personally disagree with it, what would be the strongest argument for some form of legal settlement? That assumes an increase in demand. It seems absurd to me that anyone should be concerned about what happened 200 or 500 years ago. Shipwrecked off the coast of Africa, he, and other survivors, were taken by an African tribe as captives. For some peculiar reason possibly because theres a section of Western society has become very insecure about its own position its being some credence. 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. So how much have considered paedophilia? A covering letter would be a courtesy but probably not a necessity. Just how much should Olusoga receive? June 16, 2020 - 20:29 BST Aisha Nozari. 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? There are probably a thousand organisations, charities and assorted grifters who would happily cash your cheque. More than a million copies were sold in Britain cheap pirated versions reached a mass readership. Not to say it was nice. And yet anti-black race riots broke out in 1948 in Liverpool and in 1958 in Nottingham and Londons Notting Hill. Needless to say they should pay us reparations for this too. It has been reissued by publishing house Hodder and Prof Olusoga has written the foreword. Now they do. Thats why when the question is raised, I always point out that they owe me lots and lots of money. ", TV historian rejects 'nonsense' over keeping statues, What Black History Month is - and why it matters. Although I would expect the Germans, and perhaps even the Japanese, to be happy they lost the war. Oh man. 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. 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). Vikings took slaves, including exporting Anglo-Saxons (you must have heard the quote Non Angli, sed Angeli about the English slaves being sold in Italy? I have that estimate saved and ready to be critiqued as part of a larger project. Needless to say, the national mood changed. 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. 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. The arguments do you want to get shaken down for several trillion? MBE: The problem with the UK paying reparations is that people like Olusoga would have to pay their share of the greatly increased taxes. Required fields are marked *. Will Britain change? But Ill tell you what, slavery and human sacrifice, still awful. That someone did something 200 years ago means double ought nothing. Different people can argue the toss from different viewpoints and perspectives but in many ways their arguments pass each other like ships in the night, because they havent all got nobodys got an absolute frame of reference to judge things with respect to. As would Beyonce. It is about the centuries-long engagement with Africa, a consequence of which is the black presence in Britain. 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. Viking Dublin was a major slave-trading centre (English, Irish, Scots, anyone else they could get their hands on). And the third, fourth, fifth, and so on. Black and British: A Forgotten History It may not. "Equiano is the most important voice that we have from the British experience of slavery and the slave trade," he said. Like the Nigerian slavers who enslaved and sold the slaves, you mean? 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. Well the universe has a law of gravity but it doesnt have a law of should there be reparations. Africans had a demand for female slaves. She had no interest in esoteric discussions of the war. Fought to STOP southern independence. And tolerance is not a given. 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. That is not true. Olusoga has written stand-alone history books as well as those accompanying his television series. Sugar plantations were bad. TV historian David Olusoga claims it is "palpable nonsense" to say that removing controversial statues "somehow impoverishes history". Fryers book was monumental, inspiring conferences, publications, the setting up of local history groups, the establishment of Black History Month, and radio and television programmes. 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.. Sugar was king: originally a luxury, it became one of the main sources of calories for the British poor. In the 15th and 16th centuries, thousands of pounds of gold were shipped to Europe. Moreover its arguably unjust that only victims of still-extant states have a route to compensation whereas people from ethnic groups roughly contemporaneously massacred, enslaved and sacrificed by the Aztec Empire have nobody to sue. 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. That hes able to write this article is because hes living in what is, by historical standards, a remarkably tolerant society. 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.. 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His autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, details how he was sold into slavery aged 11, his experience of travelling the world as slave to a Royal Navy officer - who renamed him Gustavus Vassa - and how he bought his freedom from his final master, an English merchant in Montserrat. Perhaps Im a bit more culturally relativist these days, but just read it again, still absolutely awful. "The way history is viewed is changing. I think it's an astonishing achievement.". 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". You can pay all the reparation for historical slavery related wrongs, real or imaginary, you want. Giles Terera, the Olivier award-winning British performer who starred in the popular theatre production Hamilton, has . people like Olusoga would have to pay their share of the greatly increased taxes Like Fryers book, Olusogas will inspire and will come to be seen as a major effort to address one of the greatest silences in British historiography. And he might not find the society withdraws it nearly as comfortable for him to live in. 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. Nobody will stop you, honest. I know. But it is Olusoga who keeps insisting that its the Brits who are uniquely responsible.. Olusoga was born in Lagos to a White mother and a Nigerian father who, I hate to say nautrally, did a runner. Both of these need proof. 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. It wasnt always so & it may not be in the future. 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. We do not know how great the demand for women was. ), Who is fundamentally right about reparations for slavery? It could have ended earlier, but the planter interests in parliament defeated William Wilberforces attempts. West Indians fought with the Allies more than a hundred were decorated. Check out the trailer for Peter Pan & Wendy, an upcoming live-action movie directed by David Lowery. So he calls himself a Geordie. What is their strongest argument? The Russians do not have these problems because they are not ashamed. In the late 1800's and early 1900's, 30,000 Jewish migrants from Russia and Eastern Europe settled in Manchester. If you are wracked with guilt, ashamed of your forebears, do it! Would also apply even if down a different family line there had been beneficiaries of the slave trade. Societies have had a long history of treating minorities harshly. I am happy with Olusogo paying reparations to himself. 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? 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. It died out with the Romans leaving, and its non-legality repeatedly reaffirmed from the reign of the early Normans onwards. You should know better. Which of those societies does Olusogas ancestry come from? It doesnt end with the parties saying Well that was pleasantly intellectually stimulating, now lets have a nice game of cricket Youre opponents are not playing by the same rules as you are. 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. Its an interesting exercise to consider, given we live within such a system, how or whether that contradiction can be settled. David Olusoga is a 49-year-old historian and presenter Credit: Getty - Contributor David Olusoga is a British Nigerian historian, broadcaster and writer. When I met her, ~1995, I started asking her questions about the war, as I thought she was a fabulous resource of information. Might, in this case, being 100% of the debating point. Abolition was the first mass philanthropic movement in Britain, and it ended the slave trade in 1807. 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. But that is not the argument I am making. "They do not want British history to be a catalogue of heroes and victories and glorious chapters," he says. 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). I had a girlfriend whose mother was a Nazi. 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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. David Olusoga 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. "The small minority whose history had been airbrushed out of the national story recovered that history with the help of their allies and then broadcast it, spread it into our national conversation and they did that within the space of half a century. Rather the constitution banned the slave trade and so it become economically worth it to make sure slaves lived longer. Well whats the point of pretending it doesnt also induce moral disgust in me, just in case someone mistakes it for guilt, or an admission of liability? I assume these were usually killed before Europeans turned up and bought them. Flyover Americans arent going to take it. And so many hundreds of thousands of British workers were directly dependent on slavery (from sailors to those who built, rigged and repaired ships) that it was easy to turn a blind eye to the inhumanity. 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).. And yet Africans and West Indians were banned from the victory parade in 1919. Thats fine, BraveFart. 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. I dont think the traders can be given a pass on this front either., Just means they werent alone in being in the wrong.. And they will go looking for parts of the past that aren't on the curriculum, and they evidently do. "They were barely known even to historians. Even Bill Clinton had affinity for the USA. Prof Olusoga is not the only person who has been drawn to Equiano's story. So he calls himself a Geordie. Women, denied a meaningful role in politics, formed their own organisations, writing tracts, pamphlets and poems, gathering signatures for petitions and fundraising: At certain times and in certain places they were the engine room of the movement.. Its a shame 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?. 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. Macmillan, 624pp, 25, David Dabydeen is a novelist, broadcaster, academic and co-editor of The Oxford Companion to Black British History (Oxford University Press), This article appears in the 16 Aug 2017 issue of the New Statesman, Trump goes nuclear, Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics. Peter Pan & Wendy is a live-action reimagining of the J.M . Hes welcome to pursue his line of thought but he should bear in mind that tolerance is, by its nature, in the gift of the powerful. So my advice would be, for his own health, STFU. 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). Olusoga poses as an objective historian and says he is not there to bring comfort to people. 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. 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. It's against this backdrop that Black British History Month was created. 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