Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners from historian David Olusoga
I've binged out on BBC Iplayer the past couple of nights and just finished watching 'A House Through Time' series by David Olusoga (a must watch as well)! But if you are unaware of this? It's a real eye opener on how Britain was built on the back of the slave trade. It show's how these slave owners came out of the wood work to claim their compensation for their human property. Unbelievably, the last beneficiary for abolition of slavery in the 1830's was paid in 2015. I post it here because if you haven't seen it? You should!
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The Guardian must fall.
Back in the 1860s, The Manchester Guardian, as it was then, gave unqualified support to the confederacy during the American civil war; even reprinting confederate propaganda against the slaves’ liberator Abraham Lincoln.
“it was an evil day both for America and the world when he was chosen President of the United States”
– Manchester Guardian, 10th October 1862
Upon the news of President Lincoln’s assassination, the Guardian described the president’s time in office as “abhorrent”, specifically the Proclamation of Emancipation – the act that declared “all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”
Perhaps the opposition to emancipation of slaves was driven by the views of their founder, John Edward Taylor, who made his money in the cotton trade – an industry that prospered on the backs of cotton-picking slaves. After the death of their founder in 1844, the paper continued its relationship with its cotton merchant advertisers, going as far as demanding Manchester’s cotton workers, who refused to touch cotton picked by US slaves, should be forced back into work.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 23:51,
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Wow, makes the Daily Mail sound like Hello magazine.
Surely the current share holders have no links to John Edward Taylor + co?
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There are no shareholders. It's a trust. A very rich trust. Made rich off the backs of slaves.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 2:11,
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They've been losing millions per year for over a decade now, they keep laying off staff,
and they beg and beg and beg me for money whenever I read their shit, so I don't think they're quite as rich as you think.
So anyway, what did you think of Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners?
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brb natural fistic, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 21:18,
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copyright, Paul Staines, 2020
The sole source of the Guido expose appears to be this 10-year-old guardian article which inevitably tells a different story
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/feb/24/1865-guardian-stance-us-civil-war
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The sole source? Apart from the contemporaneous quotes from The Guardian itself you mean?
Yes, I copied and pasted, well spotted. Why didn't I give any attribution or just post a link? Because a lot of people on here would simply say "it's a Guido story, therefore it's a lie, thus no need to stop wallowing in sanctimony."
But it's not a lie, it's just quoting the paper back at itself. Given that multiple writers in The Guardian demand apologies and even reparations from others for such historical associations, for example they simply adore trotting out quotes from Daily Mail editorials from the mid 1930s sympathetic to Hitler, shouldn't they hold themselves up to the same standards?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 11:10,
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not sure what your point is here
They have trotted the quotes out. That's where guido found them
(, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 11:38, Reply)
could you point me to the daily mail article where they discuss 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts' please
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Just do a search on the Guardian website, love.
They're very up on holding others to account for their historical positions.
While you're at it, what was Piers Morgan's position on Justin Trudeau blacking up? What's his position on his own wearing of a Nazi uniform in public?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 12:30,
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It's cute when right wingers try to apply liberal ethics to an obviously hypocritical attack on a left wing institution. Choose a fucking lane.
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brb natural fistic, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 13:39,
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War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength.
It's cute that you think no one realises you're that fuckwit Sockcooker.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 14:08,
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