As an Englishman I would like to point out, that the debt our Government took on to buy and free the empires slaves, was only finished being paid back in 2015. Every taxpayer in the UK was still paying towards it until that time. This is why I am against reparations for people who have never been slaves in their lifetime, or their parents lifetime.
Yes it wasn’t the government that paid it it was the average English citizen I can’t imagine because English working and knowing your paging something like that and still listening to the hate you get in the media.
@@nosequiters I agree, the owners should have paid... But it was legal, so simple confiscation was going to be problematic enough, let alone demanding then pay to give them up. Surely it was more important to free the slaves.
I'm a 5th grade teacher and this is NOT part of of the state's history standards or curriculum, but it is history I touch on when we talk about slavery-it's important that the kids get at least an inkling of perspective, otherwise it's just propaganda.
Simple to get around the public school system indoctrination.. Just post Thomas Sowell books on the board..Trust me, even 5th graders will ask. Who is Thomas Sowell? Then teach them.. I know. I was a wild kid growing up. But I always asked questions..Complements of Mark Twain classical education.
Thank you for trying to expand their education and give those kids a broader, more well-rounded perspective. This is especially crucial at their age, when they are very susceptible to misleading narratives. The Western world is neither the inventor of all virtue nor the fountain of all ills. As Alexander Solzhenitsyn put it, “The battle line between good and evil cuts through the center of every human heart.” If your students grow up being skeptical of anyone who tries to sell them a simplistic narrative of history, you will have done them a great service.
The movie Amazing Grace is a true story of the long fight in the UK to end slavery. Look to many palace like country houses built with slave trade money.
@@sanjayvaidya4925 By far the worst slavery nations where Muslim countries. So constantly talking about the slavery of Europe and the US is the real whataboutism.
I had no idea the British were so involved in ending slavery and that Arab nations fought so hard to maintain it, it’s almost the opposite of what the message is today.
@@tonedawg1983 long before. The Ottoman Empire actually had performed several mass invasions of Eastern Europe, taking tens of thousands of slaves and enacting a Blood Tax (taxation in the form of slave “recruitment “) on subjugated regions. In fact, it was in these invasions of Eastern Europe that the historical figure Vlad the Impaler emerged, whom fought against the ottomans for his entire adulthood.
@@tonedawg1983 Slavery, was almost a worldwide "normal" practice, but particularly across the middle East, and North Africa! European country's took full advantage of this, once they became aware of the opportunities it presented, but gradually considered the inequity of such trade, and began attempts to limit/end it, led by a long way, by the British, something I feel proud of, now I've discovered the truth!
The Washington Post, CNN and the NYT all seem intent on painting the UK as some racist hell hole were brexiteers roam the streets looking for immigrants to hound up and deport.
The Arab's participation in this has never been highlighted enough. They played a huge role in the slave trade and were also the last ones to let go of slavery although there are rumors that it is still going on in certain Arab countries.
No other subject is misrepresented/distorted/propagandised more than the history of slavery. The reasons why are all insidious. As someone once said, “judge the past through the lens of the present and you will understand neither”.
Unless you are a nationalist and simply want to do whatever it takes to make yourself feel good about your country by excusing it, or pointing to worse examples, then on the other hand claiming to be a Christian nation that pushes agenda to legislate their morality.
What utter rubbish. WHO is “excusing” the history of slavery in the West? No one outside of nut jobs, that’s pure projection. In order to understand something you must look at it holistically, ALL of it, from its inception to the modern day. What we now see, over and over, is the removal of context, downright misrepresentation or just no presentation of facts at all. When was the last time you heard any coverage of the history of slavery in Africa? Latin America? Old Arabia? China? Indigenous North America? It’s always the case that people making the accusations that you have just done know next to nothing about such things, nor are they interested in doing so. Why is that? How can you moralise & lecture people on a subject without knowing 95% of its history? Answer: because it’s not about understanding the subject at all. There are other agendas, mostly political.
@@cubablue602 I would enjoy a drink with you.....totally agree. People are not interested in facts or truth because its all about narratives......its so boring. People are nilhistic and actually think they care about these issues, when really it just makes them feel good to be superior. People don't realise they would of done the same because it was accepted and they would of been conditioned. They actually hate themsleves because they must subconciosuly know that deep down. Its scary how each generation is told to think differently and obeys to whats accepted.
@@nicholastrudeau7581 I am not American but your argument is idiotic. I don’t know about you, but my interest about American History was due to getting a nice children’s book about the American Civil War. It does not matter if the reason for the conflict was slavery or States Rights and Federal Government over reach, no other country fought a devastating Civil War to end slavery.
@@cubablue602 The problem with a lot people is that they weren’t taught history with all its complexities, nuances and relationships. I bet you that Mr, Trudeau here ignored the fact that many Europeans and most Ottomans and Arabs in the 19th century had the same racial views of Africans like their contemporaries in the United States because reasons. Politics and Ideology are the same reasons why American and European academics refuse to examine and teach the Arab African slave trade, the Brazilian slave trade, the Namibian genocide by the Germans, what the Belgians did at Congo, the Yazidi, Arab Christian and Kurd slave trade by ISIS and the current slave trade in Libya.
@@wonjubhoy not to mention a persistent dedication from navel forces and lives, even through other wars at the nation's peril. There's a reason 'rule Britannia... We'll never be slaves' was a thing of pride. No inch of British territory, which the sun could not set on, would suffer a slaves tred, without outrage.
@@ThomasSowellTV tell that to the African that were exploited the British weren’t gaining in that front that why they enforced abolition. Year of colonialism in Africa tells different. Am from Nigeria and we still reap the problems the British lead more that 80 years ago
Every culture has good and bad points, but I'd say that Britain, and to a lesser extent America, did really well to end slavery, considering it had been in existence as long as written history has been.
George Orwell made a fascinating point in his short story "Shooting an Elephant" about hating British imperialism but also seeing that those who ruled after the British were worse.
@@morganclare4704 I couldn't say for certain, but I'd hazard two guesses: the first being they aren't taught that history, and they're _subjects_ not *citizens* and they've become dependent on government to direct their lives. (Blanket statement, of course.)
@pm 'dude' the industrialist of the North (not the old slave owners) took advantage of the South's stupid secession to cripple the South's political power (3/5s compromise and need to protect slavery forced southern unity) and convert their economy to an industrial one, where cheap labor from Europe (and or slaves) would fill Southern factories, and convert the USA into a global power.
Slavery in England had been illegal for a very long time. William the Bastard had banned the slave trade in the 1080's, nearly a thousand years ago now.
@@Jim-Scott Jim, correct in one respect but wrong in another. You are correct in stating that slavery was effectively 'banned' in England (and as a result effectively in the rest of the British Isles) under Common Law (Unwritten law) from around the 12th Century. But it was not 'illegal' and certainly no Statute was passed making it illegal (Written Law aka Legislation) until the 1st Statutes effectively outlawing it were passed until the late 18th and early 19th centuries. There were many cases however, prior to the passing of the first statute that confirmed the 'right' that once you set foot on English soil you would not/could not be regarded as a slave. Unfortunately, these concepts did not pass onto Britain's colonies. If they had, I would argue the US would be a much less racially divided country.
@@garyross4602 There was no slaves in England due to their law but they sure exported a lot of African slaves and Irish and Scots Indentured Servants to the New World and many of their criminals to Australia.
@@willcruz943 Yes they did. However, insofar as the Atlantic Slave Trade is concerned so did many other nations including France, Spain, Portugal the Netherlands and Sweden. The difference is it was the British who put a stop to it for neither financial or political gain, but for moral and ethical reasons. Which is more than can be said for either the aforementioned nations or the USA. What tends to be overlooked/ignored (for a multitude of reasons} in this febrile world in which we live is that slavery existed and pre-dates the West African Slave Trade and post dates it in many parts of the world, particularly in Africa. And none of it had anything to do with race. The British intervention was the first occasion in millennia that a Nation has unilaterally forsworn slavery and then set out to force others to do the same. By the way, not for nothing, the Irish & Scot Celts were some of the most prolific slave traders in the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th centuries, until English intervention put a stop to it, just ask the St Patrick. Go figure.
I have been able to teach this-- in my World History courses and in my Western Civilization courses (yes, I still teach it) at the College I am at in North Carolina. For 27 years I have upheld what I see as truth behind events and the persons involved in them. Sometimes I feel like those Roman scholars in the provinces, watching the core of the Empire rot and fall away-but then I think " I am a Roman too!" and keep on with my work.
The people pushing this agenda know the full history and have hidden it. If people in the US knew what happened there would be a LOT fewer people a month later.
Truth is a tricky word.. Is it truth because of hard data and verifiable facts or is it truth just because tens of thousands of people believe it? How do we define truth?
The struggle for historical perspective is lost- "who controls the past- controls the future"- divide and conquer vs buyers and sellers agreeing on prices-
It was a unique campaign the British fought. Expensive, dangerous, long lasting, and with no benefit to the British. It is as close to a moral war as can be found in history.
Of course, it benefitted the British, their industrial revolution, and slave-owning colonies; besides they needed slaves in Africa and still do to accomplish the mineral extraction.
@@davidthomas4282 like what? Lies my Teacher Told me, Fake History, and the Lost Cause! or the ones you read. My history is right on point, and has been tested in school and court, how about your BS!
of course, it benefitted the British, colonial expansion was a competition, and by restricting the slave trade, it protected the lead in colonial expansion the British had already achieved through slavery.
Yup, slavery has been around in one form or another since the dawn of man. The only people to end it were western civilizations, in particular the British. For that they get raked over the coals by woke idiots.
You have nothing to be ashamed about the narrative of whites being the causers of slavery is a lie the whites were the last to hear about slavery and the first to abolish it and even fight other cultures to end it at the time it was classed as white washing to end slavery it’s funny how this word is still used today.
We should, but first let's talk and have them learn about OUR history, then see if framing slavery in the context of: others were doing it, so that made it okay.
@@nicholastrudeau7581 but the origins of slavery in the Americas requires that we study Other nations' histories, since the US wasn't the ones to bring slavery here.
@Michael Wilding How did I answer a question I never asked? What was the question you claim I asked that i also answered (quote me)? Why shouldn't Who be allowed Where?
Thank you Thomas Sowell for these truths. The British would seem to have a great deal to be proud of once they decided that slavery was wrong. It ought to be appreciated that they made this decision at a time when a considerable portion of the wealth of the nation was based on the west Indian sugar trade. We ought also to note that in America the first slaves were white, the surplus poor. In some slave states there were also black slave owners, some of whom supported the Confederacy in the civil war. It is curious to note that in some of these slave states there slave laws made it illegal for black slave owners to have white slaves. Interesting that history is presented as if only Africans were slaves. Many years ago when "Roots" was shown on television there was shock and disbelief when it was revealed that in Africa many of the slaves were caught and sold by other Africans .
Think you will find most of West African slaves were bought from dealers, as traipsing around looking for suitable slaves was time consuming and not very efficient.
Proud? Wow. You are supremacist delusional. While these are facts that need to be presented, you make it seem like Britain is the great savior is such Euro-centric heroism. You are the essence of Ruyard Kipling's writings. And I suppose British Colonialism and aftermath was the merciful resolution to Slavery?
@@davidyu9747 well... mr Yu built good, solid walls with his diligent workers to keep people out, & the paper production in as people wouldn't pay the IP licences. Today is the latest aftermath ,do you not like your lot... will you be written about kindly/infamously in some one else's history assuming we ever get to homo superior
I'm St Helenian of descent, I've traced my ancestors back to the emancipation period of 1830. What I found was the term 'slave' was often used for well treated but debt-bonded workers, the debt was to pay back the cost of passage, food and shelter once it was paid they were free. Very different to what I'd been lead to believe.
What an astounding piece of history. I have heard of some of it but assembled like this make me shudder in horror at the cruelty and barbarity of it all
@@frederickdavisbrown3539 You missed the part where the Royal Navy chased and freed the slaves that the Arabs held on their ships, or does that matter? You also seem to overlook the part where African Kings sold their brethren to the slave traders. Hmmm.
What an amazing recounting of the struggle against terribly brutal practices, truly evil practices based on scoundrels' lust for power and riches, fought against by serious-minded Christians, at the time, in western culture!
what two sides, slavery was a crime against humanity no matter how many countries practiced it, there is no other side. The British Navy curtailing the slave trade, while Britain had slaves is hypocritical, and that is the only other side.
I got emotional when I heard that Charles G. Gordon was killed by the Muhammad Ahmad in 1885. During his time as govenor of the Sudan, he emposed his efforts to end slavery in his territory, something that cost him his life, becoming a martyr, fighting against the institution of slavery.
U might be interested to know that JWW Birch, the first British resident advisor to the Perak Sultanate was murdered by a gang of local chiefs because he had influenced and persuaded the Sultan on the evils of slavery which led to the Sultan banning the practice of slavery in the sultanate. Up until than muslims were subjected to become indentured slaves to the local chieftains appointed to be administrators, tax collectors and policing local areas by the Sultan if the locals living on that land defaulted on borrowings or taxes. The non muslim natives suffered the most as they were fair game to be captured by raiding parties and traded as a commodity in the local slave markets. The chieftains lost their biggest economic means with the banning of the practice of slavery.n
This documentary should be shown on all network channels. Then hopefully modern blacks will watch this and stop their demands for reparations, especially against the Brits who played a leading role in abolishing slavery.
The average British working man and woman paid money from their pockets until the year 2015 it was the debts for forcing the world to end slavery. Britain almost went bankrupt paying countries around the world to end slavery as it was the only way they’d end it they also fought for a 100 year contract with over 100 countries around the world to give up slavery I wonder when that runs out.
Thomas Sowell an Honest man, tells the true story of how the British ended the Atlantic Slave trade, At full cost to the British. We only paid off the debt in 2013.
Yes, but it's a stronger narrative to show that the entire West, overtime, gradually cceded to the British narrative, because It indicaates that the collective Movement can be generated from off the back of a reckoning. The French and US didn't just Join the British ships off Africa, through obligation, they had taken part in internal reckonings, amongst the citizens, to get culturally driven change - so they all deserve Credit!
What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture. -Thomas Sowell
Thinking about it, yes you are right, the authorities of the UK are scaredd to be callled racist and back down on all sorts of issues, involving dysfunctional Ethnic groups causing chaos, in the UK
What stopped slavery really was colonialism and especially the British empire . When people complain about the empire on of the drivers in conquering Africa was anti slavery and humanitarian. Because we tried catching slave ships at sea for 40 years and that didn't work because of pro slavery African rulers . What's mad is in Africa now they have recent statues to black African slaverys who fought the British because the British wanted to stop the selling other black Africans. The good guys were the Royal Navy if you were a slave and saw that navy's flag you had a good chance of being freed
@@nicholastrudeau7581 the colonialists were late comers in slave trade in Africa. How could they have started a trade that was on-going centuries ago? 🤷♀️🤷♀️
@@nocturnalowl5867 Agreed. Slavery existed on every inhabited continent for thousands of years before Columbus arrived in the New World. White people were the first race to forbid slavery.
@@raypurchase801 the British explorers also made efforts to stop gruesome local practices like headhunting. Today’s descendants of headhunters do not harbour grudges against the British for making it out of fashion 😝
@@nicholastrudeau7581 you literally have recent statues to black slave traders being put up in Africa who fought the British because they were trying to stop them selling slaves . The British empire was actually a improvement to the people under it and did more to stop slavery than just about anything else . And yet colonialism is see as bad . I talked to some people who were alive during the empire and not white and all of them saw the empire as doing good and improving things , actually they were keener on it than just about anyone I've met .
@Don Black oh my, what a cacophony of 'the woke' guilty style support you have there. feeling guilty don as per 'the woke' global agenda... homosapien's history now needs a safe space ^_~
Thank you mr sowell' and all those who took part in making this' a fully rounded veiw of the history of the slave trade I look forward to 2 the next one. respect sir
What annoys me, when talking about slavery, that they almost never talk about, the slaves being shipped Eastwards. In to Saudi Arabia and further. Wich started much earlier, and lasted much longer.
It does not fit the narrative that slavery was a uniquely western human evil and the race baiting industry that exists today. The reality is human slavery, conquest and robbing of resources was done by every single civilisation, trive and people from the start of modern human history. Our tribal nature makes it easy to fear and dehumaise others. It was the era and technology that made the British successful in their conquests. But no instead European nations and America are unique I the sense we are taught to deny that reality and to hate ourselves. Does no good.
I guess the best thing about this, is the message that campaigning and doing the right thing is not, as hopeless as we often think in the 21st-century.The fact that despite huge personal and national cost, everywhere, Britain continued to make huge sacrifices for such a prolonged period, means that a collective human spirit, can become manifest, at such a scale; this is stunning, inspiring and groundbreaking, because I cannot think of any other single example of it, in human history .This is important, because we face equally, if not more catastrophic and pressing issues in our near future, namely the need for a worldwide commitment protecting the environment and escalation of nuclear threat.This will need to be addressed on a macro and multilateral scale, much as the British collective spirit, managed to eventually force the French and US hand, and eventually the world as a whole. This will require drive and leadership for gradual growth within the most influential population in the world at the time, which right now would be the US population, needinng to pressurise the government to act, maybe in the near future this will be China or India, In the medium to long-term. Without a collective commitment from the most influential public at a given time, there will not be enough traction for it to get commitment from the rest of the world Sowell could have made this more interesting, by explaining how such commitment and personal sacrifice, in Britain, was achieved at a national scale, because this is what will be required again
For more about the civil war in the United States: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_during_the_American_Civil_War avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_csa.asp www.history.com/this-day-in-history/confederate-constitution-adopted
For another perspective, see the JBS series *_Myths vs. Facts_* by Art Thompson, on the real motives behind the Civil War. The group which stirred up all of that animosity and kept it active started May 1, 1776, and has gone by many names, but always with the same, dark goals.
Side Note, even societies that condone horrific slavery, didn't tolerate castration. (10:18) What does that say about modern 'Progressive' culture that not only pushes this on children (often their own) but also praises and takes pride in it ... P.S. - Groupthink is a terrifying concept; it is so important for individuals to critically reassess assertions
This comment is really one of the dumbest things I've ever read. It's unreal how NewsMax has convinced you to be more afraid of trans folks than medical debt and poverty. I would bet my paycheck you have never met a trans person and yet you are terrified of the "gay agenda". Of course, the religious right is the only group with a long history of castrating children, but who cares about reality/history/facts right?
@@AJ-hc5zo A good rule of thumb: Never trust the people who LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it when unborn babies are murdered by the millions in evil leftist abortion mills.
thanks for trying to educate people on actual history that most of use did not learn in school. In fact the things I have learned of hidden agendas in history I have learned in the last 1.5 yr during this nonsense of a pandemic
I refute any blame laid upon me as an English man for the crimes of my people in centuries gone by.. I wholeheartedly accept any and all accolades for the actions of my people in centuries gone by. End slavery. We did that.
Fantastic lesson in human history and fantastic lesson in how ignorant we remain on human history because we react, again re-act, purely on emotions instead of on facts.
For me we have bought them a new country in Africa called LIBERIA so they can move-out to Liberia, own their own land and start a new life but most of them refused to go-back and instead insisted to stay in the USA. Therefore, they have, already, being paid for the reparations. It is totally unfair to pay it AGAIN.
Those repatriated slaves just built themselves plantaition houses and again practiced the slavery of their African locals after the Americans left. The houses rotted and they had one of the lousiest shithole countries on earth after that ~
What this says that makes the history of slavery so interesting is its took the British naval ship to stop and end slavery and not the Africans who sold their people into slavery non-stop for over 400 years without any kind of resistance.
Brother they have a audio version of master scholar Chances Williams called "The destruction of Black civilization" a most read or listen to check it out on RU-vid.
Thomas Sowell knows the history but skips out a lot to appease white folks that's dangerous everything he talks about I know about but what is missing in black resistance why doesn't mention that
Even the uk people don’t know because the world is not allowed to mention that it was white people who were the last to join slavery and the first to end it.
Could you come to the UK and talk on this ? The country is currently beating itself up over this , mostly based on the idea that England invented slavery and was the sole practitioner.
@@GhostDcuo It's more a comment on what the media and some politicians would have you believe here. Whenever its discussed, the self hatred goes off the scale.
Because part of British rule was no slavery and equality for women this was seen as white washing and forcing white culture to end slavery and have women as equal to men. Schools and the media has pushed the opposite to be true that if people were to start teaching this no one would believe it.
Thank you!! I had heard a little about the British outlawing slavery before we did, but had never heard a peep about their noble sacrifices to actually end the practice and save the lives of slaves. Stunning. Also stunning is the cruelty and heartlessness of the Arab slavers. The Judeo-Christian belief in all men being made in the image of God is revolutionary in civilization, and probably the most civilizing belief.
When facts don't relate to the current narrative, sadly that's the world we now live in, its actually quite funny to stand back while the Arabs try to stand side by side with blacks crying about how they're also victims of "British are bad", the irony is laughable yet the woke lap it up.
What the guy doesn’t cover is the political pressure Britain put on the rest of the world. Effectively every time Britain signed a treaty with another country they made them sign a corresponding anti slavery treaty as well. It was the political pressure that had the most effect in ending slavery.
I have felt for a long time the story of the fight against the institution of slavery was the real story of our modern age. Cruelty is old news, this is what was new.
