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The British crusades against slavery Okay Britain's crinly stupid attitudes to race and immigration are beyond parody by Frankie Boyle Okay, for those who aren't aware Frankie Boyle is a famous Scottish comedian We know who is most renowned for being pretty damn offensive Needless to say I'm a fan of his and so when Frankie Boyle writes an article for the Guardian of all places With the subtitle the anti-immigration election rhetoric is perverse We fear the arrival of people we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them I can see the misinformation coming a mile away. So Frankie or from them. I Can see the sound about right the knife the misinformation coming a mile away. So Frankie begins the article by Waffling in an overly verbose manner reminiscent of Charlie Brooker another man who I I'm a fan of but has been led astray by misinformation and it's full of these sort of contradiction Well, you're gonna read these for us Are you gonna make us read them? Is that I'm sure sounded good when he was writing them, but when you actually think about it Airport departure they have already been a couple of amusing moments in the campaign when leaders standing in front of the union jack It's I'm not reading a rather silly I mean here he is pointing out the irony of the leaders being nationalist and warning about the Scottish National Party After making a crack about how the Scottish discovered Penicillin and taking credit for this for some reason and for some reason he seems to mix up the concepts of trade and immigration But these really aren't very important I'm not even bothered that he just assumes that an Australian style point system for immigration will obviously be a Racist system that caters exclusively to white people, you know This is despite the fact that Cambridge economics professor has warned the sheer scale of immigration has caused problems for the UK's Infrastructure which was largely built in the 70s, but you know what none of that really bothers me What really bothers me is Frankie Boyle's Attempts to make British people feel ashamed of Britain's involvement in the slave trade That really gets my goat because Britain's involvement in the slave trade is one of the most proud Accomplishments of British history, and I know what you're thinking. Oh my goodness slavery is bad and that's correct Which is why the British ended it for everyone if we just take a cursory look at the subject You can see how it is not nearly as cut and dried as Frankie makes it out to be even the very word slave Comes from slav because of the sheer number of slavs taken as slaves by conquering peoples But Frankie is trying to drum up white guilt So let's talk about African slavery the Portuguese were the first Europeans to start exploring the West Wait, wait Wait, let me finish this sandwich because I don't know we are eating class Stop African coast and the the Portuguese were the first Europeans to start exploring the West African coast and they did indeed capture African natives to be brought back to Portugal facts. I just watched the I Just watched the app that the uh, what was it African Queen the first queen woman lady Queen Ah Portugal as items of curiosity Europeans who traveled to Western Africa discovered that Western Africa had civilizations of its own for example a Dutch visitor to Benin city wrote in around 1600 as you enter it the town appears very great You go into a great broad street not paved which seems to be seven or eight times broader than the warmest street in Amsterdam The houses in this town stand in good order one close and even with the other As the houses in Holland stand More than a century earlier Benin exchanged ambassadors with Portugal the Portuguese did take a few Africans back to Europe But they didn't need to set up operations because they discovered that they were already Thriving slave trades in Africa And so they bought slaves from African rulers and traders The vast majority of slaves taken out of Africa were sold by African rulers Traders and military aristocracy who grew wealthy from the business Also as far as I know this is to be true as well Most slaves were acquired through wars or by kidnapping and before you start thinking that this is excessively barbaric This was the standard For almost every civilized society All across the world for example in ancient Greece Strabo tells us that the island of Delos trafficked in 10,000 slaves a day Even before the roman empire even when we're coming to the end of roman republic in the first century bc It's estimated that a third of italy was made up of slaves Slaves made up of people whom the romans had conquered and taken back to italy to do hard labor And so to anyone even slightly educated on this subject It is absolutely Unsurprising to find that for example in 1510 the capital of the empire of Songhai Was teeming with slaves Slave trading in west Africa was common, but it was different to what you expect It wasn't for commercial purposes as far as I know. Yes Civilizations in Africa did sell their their captures Like war captures like the people they caught in war Or other people Okay, it was to show status and to give the wealthy african elite A comfortable life and with the appearance of europeans desperate to buy slaves for use in the americas I heard it pushed the whole economy sometimes The character of african slave ownership changed Indeed it did the character of slavery on the west coast of africa Changed to look a lot more like the character of slavery on the east coast of africa Because we're going to talk about the arab slave trade specifically the circumstance of swahili speaking peoples Unsurprisingly the arabs being far closer to sub-saharan africa than the europeans had been taking advantage of it for far longer They were people with as much commercial naus as anyone else The ruling class of coastal swahili society sultans government officials and wealthy merchants Used non-muslim slaves as domestic servants and to work on farms and estates and they even had plantations Such as the omani sultan sayid side Who became immensely rich when he started up clove plantations in the 1820s with slave labor Arab muslims settled along the coast and intermixed with the locals Forming a people and culture known as swahili which started in around the 10th century ad So unsurprisingly the east africa slave trade was well established long before Sound like it was booming See this is the this is this is where i must have fell asleep in class about this part Europeans arrived on the scene and was driven by demands for labor by the sultanates of the middle east You might be thinking well, that's interesting if the arabs had been in africa for about a thousand years taking Sub-saharan african slaves Why isn't there a very large population of black people in arabia? And the answer to that is that the arabs used to castrate them cock and balls entirely a practice that was supposed to have ended in 1962 When slavery was finally outlawed in places like saudi arabia This of course does not mean that the trade has actually stopped It is still going on today It's impossible to know exactly how many slaves the arabs took from sub-saharan africa on the east coast Do i need to you know what i'm saying I might need to do that But one historian produced a total of 17 million slaves Yeah, yeah, all of this stuff is still happening around the world in certain places you know Downs it was that high But again, we can't know and it was for over a thousand down But one historian Arabs took from sub-saharan africa on the east coast But one historian produced a total of 17 million slaves I doubt it was that high, but again, we can't know and it was for over a thousand years that this was happening The point is that slavery was ubiquitous No matter where on earth you traveled You found slaves in europe in china in the middle east in the new world in india in scandinavia In africa slavery was as common an institution as animal husbandry The only thing that separated the christian nations of western europe from anyone else on earth Was the efficiency with which they could transport taken slaves And it should come as no surprise that this was made possible By advances in technology that the rest of the world simply didn't have The most common number i could find A lot of sometimes these videos that i'll be watching like this Uh, or when i hear people speak like this it It'd be sounding like they're trying to prove a point like they try to prove a point like Do you get what i'm saying like When i'll be listening to this i'll be like, okay, you're trying to prove a point. What is your point exactly? What are you trying to tell me? What are you trying to prove to me right now? You know because i'm drawing conclusions in my head that i might not be able to say You know what i'm saying? number of slaves transported by each european country portugal including brazil voyages 30,000 the eight Brazil was making it happen britain 12,002 million i'm not gonna lie man Britain was a lot more efficient than portugal even though They did 30,000 voyages and took 4 million Close to 5 million they did 12,000 and took close to 3 million now They did three times as many voyages that only took half as many more but Imagine if britain took 30,000 voyages Give what i'm saying british north america usa 1,500 300 000 denmarked france Okay Regarding the total number of slaves taken from africa by europeans was 11 million And that is in about a 400-year time span portugal took the most slaves with over four and a half million transported They did take the most slaves but they took 30,000 voyages But if we doing it like if we do a percentage-wide like For the new world There we go. Come on break that down then britain with over two and a half million Then spain and france totaling just under three million and just so no one is under any illusions Still feel like britain took the most by voyage This is am i wrong for 12,000 voyages for 2.6 million And france totaling just under three million and just so no one is under any illusions The transatlantic slave trade must have been close to hell on earth Slaves were taken from africa and packed into conditions So disgraceful and disgusting it is unsurprising that there was such exactly my boy Like that's what i'm trying to say like what are you trying to prove to me like other countries did it worse, but you still You still did it High mortality rate for the crossing as offensive as this is to look at We have to remember that this is a consequence of dehumanization The slaves were not people they were chattel it will obviously come as absolutely no surprise That the driving motivation behind slavery was economic portuguese merchants traded with africans from trading posts They set up along the coast They exchanged items like brass and copper bracelets for such products as pepper cloth beads and slaves All part of an existing internal african trade But the transatlantic slave trade really took off when christopher columbus discovered the new world The portuguese initially had a monopoly on the slave trade But this was broken in the 16th century when england followed by france and other european nations Entered the trade No go back The english led in the business of transporting young africans from their homeland to work and mines till Entire lands in the americas It's not exclude that we see that by france and other european nations entered the trade Unsurprisingly, this was a massively profitable trade For everyone involved except the slaves Africa's rulers traders and military aristocracy Protected their interest in the slave trade They discouraged europeans from leaving the coastal areas to venture to the interior of the continent european trading companies realized the benefit of dealing with african suppliers and not unnecessarily antagonizing them The companies could not have mustered the resources it would have taken to directly capture the tens of millions of people shipped out of africa It was far more sensible and safer to give africans guns to fight in the many wars that yielded captives for trade The slave trading network stretched deep into african's interior slave trading firms were aware of their dependency on african suppliers And these african suppliers So like i said earlier, i just watched that movie the woman king And i'm not even if y'all have not seen woman king The woman king like literally Everything that's being broken down right here was in woman king Everything everything dude is saying and everything that i'm reading Was was in the woman king Were making insane amounts of money For example, the king of benin was making 250 000 a year selling people into slavery in 1750 and his successor said in the What is that? What does that translate to 250 000 a year? In 1750, what would that be in today's money? 250 what is that? I feel like that's like a trillion dollars Let me look it up. Thanks. No. No somebody look it up in the chat The 1840s that he would do anything the british wanted him to do apart from giving up the slave trade Quote the slave trade is the ruling principle of my people It is the source and the glory of their wealth The mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery With an industry so profitable to so many people involved And so widespread as to be common to almost every nation on earth And the whole plot in the woman king, I know like you can't really compare movies, but this is very comparable I'm not even gonna lie. This is like spot on to what everything that's in what it do do's talking about was in the woman king That's what they were saying they were conquering they were they were having fights between Africans versus Africans And whoever was caught a casualty of war or a captive They were slow on the on the boat on the boat on the borders Of the african coast like this is literally Same exact thing What they were talking about, you know, I'm saying even though these movies be not real is based on slight realness Especially a movie like that with the british Want king gazo to give up the slave trade? Well, we need to turn back the clock to 1066 and the battle of hastings When a french-speaking duke of viking descent Called william the bastard Defeated king herald godwinson of england william the bastard was Refashioned as william the conqueror and took the crown of england Okay, and one of the first things he did as king of england was to have the entire country Inventoryed this record was known as the doomsday book and we still have it Thanks to this hard work. We know the 250 thousand dollars In 1750 is 70 million dollars And that's british right britain pounds. That's in pounds Around 1086 10 of the recorded population of england was slaves 20 years earlier when it went to this hard work We know that around 1086 10 of the recorded population of england was slaves 20 years earlier when he had first conquered england William had enacted a series of laws One of which prohibited the slave trade out of england I prohibit the sale of a man by another outside of the country on pain of a fine paid in full to me I prohibit the sale of any man by another by another outside of the country But inside what about in We don't know what william's motivation for making this law was But given that the punishment for breaking it was a fine I doubt it was for humanitarian reasons Whatever his reasons within a generation of 1086 slavery had almost died out in england Presumably because william the conqueror had outlawed the trade of slaves There appears to also have been a trend for lords to endow their slaves to perform their plowing functions As free plowmen while not a wonderful state of affairs Serfdom is better than chattel slavery and this state of affairs was solidified by the church at the synod of west minstering 1102 where the church Denounced simony clerical marriages and slavery. This made england a very unique case There probably wasn't another country in the world at this time that had outlawed slavery There were practically no motivations to do so It was incredibly lucrative Endemic to the point of normalcy So it wasn't even viewed as immoral And the chances are william the conqueror himself made the slave trade in england illegal Just so he could make a quick buck Fast forward 700 years and the international transatlantic slave trade is in full swing And yet we still do not have slaves in england and this is where we meet a man named grandville sharp A very well educated Rationalist thinker of the enlightenment Who became an active campaigner for the abolition of the slave trade grandville had had previous legal success defending jonathan strong From his erstwhile slave master after being brought to england from the colonies But we're going to look at the subsequent summer sets case james summer set was a It's crazy how y'all pronounce words subsequent subsequent That's not the first word i heard but that's the first time i'm gonna address it I don't know i'm just probably pronouncing it right slave from virginia in america Who had come to england brought to england from the colonies But we're going to look at the subsequent summer sets case James summer set was a slave from virginia in america Who had come to england with his master charl stewart in 1769 and had run away in october 1771 After evading slave hunters employed by stewart for 56 days Summer set had been caught put onto the slave ship ann and mary to be taken to jamaica and sold Three londoners had applied to lord mansfield for a group of habeas corpus Which had been granted with summer set having to appear at a hearing on the 24th of january in 1772 members of the public responded to the plight by sending money to pay for his lawyers In any event gave their services pro bono publico While stewart's costs were met by the west indian planters and merchants Given his prior legal experience with the jonathan strongcase sharp briefed summer sets lawyers The judgment was delivered on the 22nd of june 1772 And it was a clear victory for summer set sharp and the lawyers who had acted for summer set Mansfeld acknowledged that english law did not allow slavery and only a new act of parliament could bring it into legality The verdict established one thing very clearly a slave becomes free the moment he sets foot on english soil And this was according to lord mansfield That the air of england is too pure for any slave to breathe no matter what reason william the conqueror at lord slave This was according to lord mansfield that the air of england is too pure for any slave to breathe no matter what reason William the conqueror at lord slavery for by the time this judgment was drawn by lord mansfeld It had become a point of principle This precedent wasn't set for Mansfield's personal interests. This precedent was set to determine right from wrong. Granville Sharp went on to co-found the Society for effecting the abolition of the slave trade with fellow like-minded Enlightenment thinkers. Like-minds. The abolition of the slave trade with fellow like-minded Enlightenment thinkers. And after 20 long years of campaigning in parliament, which I won't detail here, they were successful in their goal of abolishing the international slave trade in 1807. Now, if you know anything about 1807, you'll know that this was during the War of the Fourth Coalition, where Napoleon Bonaparte was savaging great powers all across the... It sounds familiar. If I was awakened history class, you know, it's never too late to learn anything. ...European continent. The Napoleonic War Bonaparte was savaging great powers all across the European continent. The Napoleonic Wars led to new territorial acquisitions for Britain, and helped stuff parliament with more abolitionists than they had before, which is why the bill providing for the abolition of the slave trade to conquered territories triumphantly passed in both houses. And the following year, this was superseded by a stronger measure that outlawed the British Atlantic slave trade altogether. But, given... I knew a butt was coming. ...that outlawed the British Atlantic slave trade altogether. But, given the raging war in Europe, it was rather difficult to enforce due to a paucity of available resources. After 1807, the Society of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, having achieved its goals, became the African Institution, whose principal aim was to ensure the new legislation was enforced and that other countries followed Britain's example. Persuading other countries to join Britain outlawing the slave trade proved more difficult. Obviously. Or they're going by, if you lead, they'll follow? No. This is a lucrative thing to them. And yes, it's wrong. But when money is involved with anything, that's going to be it. Despite the efforts of the African Institution and those of British Ministers, the Congresses of Paris and Vienna in 1814 and 1815 both failed to reach a specific agreement. Given that this was at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, it's hardly surprising that there was French opposition. Where diplomacy had failed, the Royal Navy had to succeed. It's one thing declaring a writ that people may no longer profit from the trading of human beings. It's another thing to enforce that. Enter the West African Squadron. The West Africa Squadron was a detachment of the Royal Navy that was given the task of blockading Africa, the continent, to make sure that slave traders were not taking slaves to the Americas. Needless to say, in 1807... Who else? Anybody else heard of that before? I ain't never heard of that. I don't go back. The task of blockading Africa. I don't go back. No, no, no. I like the name. Enter the West African Squadron. The West African Squadron was a detachment of the Royal Navy that was given the task of blockading Africa, the continent, to make sure that slave traders were not taking slaves to the Americas. Needless to say, in 1807, there was only a token force performing this operation, comprising of two ships. This number was increased to five ships until the War of 1812 with the United States. But after 1815, with Britain victorious in Europe and Supreme Sea, the Royal Navy turned its attention back to the challenge. The institution of slavery was formally abolished in the British Empire in 1833. And by the 1850s, around 25 vessels and 2,000 officers and men were on the station, supported by nearly 1,000 crewmen. Experienced fishermen recruited as sailors from what is now the coast of modern Liberia. It's worth noting that this was not a pleasant job. And the mortality rate was five times higher compared with fleets in the Mediterranean or in home waters. To help incentivize the crew, money was actually given to each crew per slave that they freed. But there was a real zeitgeist in Britain for the abolition of slavery. A real what? Freed. But there was a real zeitgeist in Britain. Zeitgeist? For the abolition of slavery. For example, the pursuit and capture of slave ships became celebrated naval engagements, widely reported back in peacetime Britain. They became a source of national pride. So it's no wonder that many of the crews really did have an evangelical zeal about the anti-slavery patrolling. However, I don't want to give the impression that this was all for humanitarian reasons. Yeah, no, there had to be some type of monetary. There's no doubt that Britain in her foreign policy used her anti-slavery laws as a stick with which to beat her opponents. Primarily the Spaniards and the Portuguese were refused to conform to these demands. Britain demanded Spain, Portugal and the very new nation of Brazil to declare slave trading to be piracy. And while these nations paid lip service to these principles, they failed to enforce them, which led to a British blockade of Brazil. So they said they were going to do it, but never did it. Britain, this was Brazil, Portugal and Spain? By 1850, which of course forced the nascent Brazilian Empire to capitulate. And it didn't end there. In the 1860s, David Livingston reports of Arab atrocities against the slave Africans stirred up the interest of the British public, reviving the flagging abolitionist movement. Throughout the 1870s, the Navy attempted to suppress this abominable eastern trade at Zanzibar in particular. Needless to say, the British Navy continued their mission against the slavers across the Indian Ocean. The abolition of slavery became the British project. It captured the hearts and minds of the entire country from the highest lord to the lowest peasant. This is certainly how the British saw it. For example, this spirit of chivalry, we see it in acts of heroism by land and sea in fights against the slave trade. Alfred Tennyson, the unwary, unostentatious and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations. William Lecky. All of this was done against the vested financial interests of hundreds of thousands of people. Entire nations were against the idea of abolishing slavery and the slave trade. The very notion was alien to the human existence until Britain made it happen. In the 19th century, if you saw a ship bearing down on you, flying this flag and you were a slave trader, you knew that this flag stood for liberty. This was the flag of a nation that defied human convention for a point of principle and spent its blood, sweat, tears and treasure to enforce it on the world. This is the flag of the nation that accepted the absolute moral truth that slavery is wrong. No matter what riches can be amassed, no matter what power can be gained, no matter the cost, slavery had to be abolished. That was the British Crusade. When Britain held the reins of world power, that is what she did with it. So Frankie, to be honest with you, when you say we have streets named after slave owners, we have profited from a vile crime and feel no shame. It is British people that don't learn languages or British history. Britain is the true scrounger, the true criminal. The real comedy in this video is that this was made in response to a Frankie Boyle advert, well not an advert, Frankie Boyle column in The Guardian. I have to concur. British people apparently do not learn British history because Britain's involvement in the slave trade is one of the most proud moments any nation could have had in their history. I want to make one thing crystal clear, Frankie. You live in a world without slavery because of Britain. There you came, Frankie. You know what I'm saying? Get your get back, buh-bye. What was I saying? It's crazy that like two people from Britain, from the UK, have two completely opposite takes on it. You know what I'm saying? There's always three takes to a story. The left, the right, then the truth. So, you know, till I leave a like, comment, subscribe, turn on your post notification bells. Hope you enjoyed class, man. We're gone.