The Shameful Truth Behind British History's Liberal Facade | Britain’s Slave Trade
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- Britain’s Slave Trade reveals the shameful truth behind this liberal facade, showing how the economic, social and cultural life of Britain would have been unrecognisable without slavery. Britain’s Slave Trade explains how a middling European power transformed itself into the ruler of the waves, tracing the impact this had on the British way of life and taking in the Industrial Revolution, the beginnings of Empire and the birth of modern racism along the way. It also unearths startling evidence showing how many families that think of themselves as ‘pure’ English stock are in fact descended from slave ancestors.
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Same islands where slave trading still goes on. But of younger people, and more investors.
rule britania
@@julieheywood8832 They should all be grateful that they are allowed to bask in the glories of European Civilization.
When will timeline do a piece on Arab Slave trade?
Why does nobody talk about the arab islamic slave trade? enslaved africans for centuries, expanded after the abolishment in the west and is still going on today.
Locusts are writhe there now
People do talk, but most people that talk about European slave trade were affected by it, they happen to be more vocal. Britain and America allow ppl to speak where as Arab nations don’t talk about it.
They do I mean look at yourself go right now
They do, ou just don't want to listen
There is something deeply pathological, barbaric and evil about a people who are more consumed with amassing material wealth, destroying cultures around the world and then wanting to bury the truth.
Thanks for sharing what many of us refuse to deny or hide.
So trie.
Then the same shameless countries tell other countries to practice democracy; lecture them about civil rights, genocide,etc. Look at UK, USA, Canada with newly discovered unmarked mass grave near catholic churches and schools- government institutionalized murder.
Hit the nail on the head.
Slavey existed for 4000 years before the UK got involved. It still goes on today in many parts of the world. Pure evil.
You believe this bull? Wake up and smell the truth! We(the British) taught the world about decency and justice and these pigs would have you believe that WE are the problem! You might be the problem for believing the lies but MY EYES ARE OPEN AND I AM PROUD OF OUR HISTORY. learn from a book not the internet you buffoon.
What was Britain’s role in the slave trade? Enormous. What was Africa’s role in the slave trade? Enormous. We the human species have throughout all our histories enslaved our own and others.
Bbn
Esther Parker ?? Forgive me but Bbn
Africa's role was big but not Enormous compared to that of Britain's
@@Koloviv48i Without the involvement of African people there would have been no trans Atlantic slave trade. It was Africans who enslaved other Africans then sold them to the Europeans.
@@Koloviv48iBritish involvement in the slave trade was short lived and while they were involved it was African tribes capturing them and trading them with Europeans. Europeans didn’t run around Africa catching people.
Britain also ended the slave trade at great cost to their own nation which they only recently in the last few years finished paying off.
Every British man and woman going all the way back to William Wilberforce has personally paid towards ending the slave trade their whole lives up to around 4 or 5 years ago.
The British were one of the least involved nations. If you want to hear about real barbarity then read about the East African slave trade committed by Barbary pirates. They also took many European slaves and this went on for over a 1000 years and is still going on today, while the transatlantic slave trade was only a 100.
As a black Jamaican the British empire show me how barbaric it was
Who’s Here After The Statute Of A Slave Master Got Dunked In A River In Bristol 🙋🏽♀️
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Nigel Brown Are You Ok Sir??? Where Exactly Did I Say Anything About “Doing” Whatever ...”Tearing Britain Down” Or Getting Rid Of (your words) “Whitey”
GARYPUSSY Leave It Out 🤣🤣🤣 Please Point Out How And Why I Feel ENSLAVED 🙄..... As For “YOUR KIND” .... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Bless Ya
dirtbike riders READ THE COMMENTS🤦🏽♀️ I WAS REPEATING ....WHAT HE SAID TO ME 🙄
@dirtbike riders We'll thats the most racist thing I've ever heard. Why should she be the bigger person while you all bully her. You people don't want equality ,you want victims. You beat us down to build up your low self esteem. Your all racists and your never gonna change.
The monarchy is the common denominator here, but oh no. They must not be mentioned 🙄
10000% agree with u , and the catholic church, although trying their very best to wash their hands of their atrocities, they were vital in the sanctioning and ,directl role into the slave trade
Clapping
I was born in Liverpool 1 close to the docks as a child growing up the docks close to the water front, that was our play ground along the dock road into the side of the dock road was a large chain with a very big metal ring,were the slaves were shackled even as a kid i knew it was wrong, our history of slave traders is horrific, the chain has gone now i belive it is in the history museum by Albert Dock ,it was a shamfull sight but it was always a reminder of our shamfull history.
No, racists are the common denominator, no matter race or gender.
Republic of Australia
🇰🇳I am from the island of St. Christopher (St.Kitts as we call it and I was born here) and Nevis (her sister island) and I hated Caribbean history and the emotions that it invoked in me and so many of my former classmates, smh. It was very heartwrenching.🇰🇳
So Sorry what happened to your people
Close friends of mine lived on Nevis for several years and I visited the beautiful islands of St Kitts and Nevis while they resided there. I cannot imagine what it must be like for you to learn in your childhood school lessons about the brutal abuse and subjugation that your ancestors suffered, especially when many still see your islands as merely a vacation paradise. My heart is with you, although I know that probably means very little.
@Akila " Keshab37" Take heart , the only good thing is we're now getting to know the barbarism , the killing fields of the slavers, the evil these b@stards have committed on the original human people, and have always try to hide it . Now we see the devils behaviour for centuries. As am watching this from Ghana it makes my heart heavy as this barbaric behaviour have enriched the Caucasean and my Continent still up till today experiencing the reverberation of that traumatic era.
@@Koloviv48i
Now Russia is taking over the bloody Imperialism. They're trying to make slaves out of the entire country of Ukrain.
Lovely seeing the HAPPY PRIDE on David Jolly's face seeing the painting of his more than likely great great great grandfather. It gave him an answer to his question. Lovely
Yes so heart warming.
He was really elated u could tell. Unlike some who try to erase that part of themselves
The amount of pain in those buildings
Right he like this is some wonderful work... that came with torture and brutality
So many people commenting ‘get over it and stop talking about it’. The fact that you can’t even talk about the slave trade without getting angry says a lot lol
😂😂😂 someone chatting BS/I smell fear
Oh we can talk about, in quite the civil manner I assure you. It's just not something that's prominent or important in the western world anymore. Human trafficking involves far more than just black people as another example, it's predominantly white people who are trafficked throughout western Europe and Eastern Europe. Though I suppose saying that would anger a lot of people and invite claims of racism when in reality it's fact. While I think it's important to remember history, I don't think it's important to try and enforce the idea that's it's somehow a systemic issue today. I would agree with the majority of folks here, get over it and move on, it happened hundreds of years ago and the people alive today certainly hold no responsibility or idea of owing reparation to the other side.
When you start talking about human trafficking however, it's an entirely different issue and happens to people of all skin colours throughout the USA, Europe, UK and Eastern Europe.
Imagine I was thinking the same thing, every comment is what about them, why you talking about it etc lol. Truth literally really hurts 👀👀
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@SV Green Turtle okay random
4mths or more after my comments.. All coz I said I'm not going to show my daughter the video 🤣🤣Well done for finding your voice 👍🏾😳
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Summary: THEY STARTED IT.
You're welcome.
Kravlona Russia You are all wrong it was started by the Dutch and the Holy Roman Catholic Church when the pope granted OWNERSHIP to the Dutch of the west coast of Africa.
Followed by the Spaniards, Portuguese,, then because of the English sea superiority beat everyone out of it.
Hello Kravlona Russia, can I just say Grettings from Transnistria, Russia being the first of course!
Kravlona Russia what a big lie!
@@keithliscott1020 The Arabs were doing it long before the Dutch and the Holy Roman Church.
@@petebondurant58 yes you are right it was the Arab's who took the slaves over to America...did you get an American education.... nice.
Johnson was more than a father figure to Francis Barber, you know what they did with black women and men.
The Scottish man looks a lot like his African ancestor. Genetics run deep.
That's the first thing I thought. That's crazy right?
Dude look and sound like a white Scottish James brown!!
I am Portuguese and Proud HOWEVER we are coming to terms with our own significant past in this evil trade..it is also difficult here BUT the truth MUST be spoken for future generations it MUST
This is somewhat sanitised
How so?
Mr Jolly's talking about curly hair only. But he has the exact hairline as shown in the painting, far more compelling than curly hair!
I’ve just thought exactly the same thing
@@rebeccad722 As a breeder of dogs for over 50 years, I say with certitude, among all animals, certain specimens are genetically potent to very extreme degrees.
It is the bit above the lips and below the nose for me. The resemblance is clear. What a heart thumping moment for Mr. Jolly.
The form of their foreheads too! Incredible after 200 years
The wonderful true film, Amazing Grace tells the story of William Wilberforce. He, a member of British Parliament fought twenty years to end the Slave Trade. Wilberforce and the PM of Britain, with help, ended the Slave Trade by removing protection of the slave ships. They were afraid to sail without protection.
The.Haitian revolution of 1789-1804 destroyed the trans-atlantic slave trade.
There are truth and a lot of lie in this so-called world-history documentaries, the storyteller is telling the story that was written by those who seek to change history it into a lie to add themselves in at a higher race above all other races, I am black and traced my great, great, great-great-grandparents only right in America which once was called Turtle Island, I am an aborigine of America which is called black American. There are many black Americans that have taken a DNA test and found out they are in fact the true aboriginal of Turtle Island/America here is proof in this video .... Queen Latifah in finding roots-presented by ancestry.
The zionist slave ships. Go ahead and say it. Its what nobody says and is of the utmost importance
@@aborigineone2377 anything to deny your African roots...
@@PROGRESS4eva We are not African, that is a lying out of Africa history that was taught to us only in schools we know who we are and so do the Africans
Well sorry, but after having my dna done, I’ve no African dna. 90% England & Wales, 10% Scotland and Ireland. ......
Nevermind..... I'm sure that some how, some way, there must be something you need to aplogise for.......
Now where did I leave Mr.Corbyn?????
Last Templar you what?
They missed out that the chiefs of the villages, sold there own in the Carib and Africa. And the lower class English man was treated the same as slaves, we want compensation as well.
@James Registe Ha Ignorance on the subjects abounds.
Yes that is how you twist history and lie through your teeth for centuries now we know your atrocities and barbarism
Always figured the low slave numbers in the UK were due to the fact that we already had slaves here: working class, especially the Irish.
England and Europes is built on the serf system where if you did not own the land you were basically working for someone else all your life. The land owners lived well while the rest of us laboured with little chance of change. Being poor and white was no fun either yet this is often forgotten.................... Then along came the industrial revolution and fourteen hour days and a life expectancy of living till your early thirties nice............ oh don't forget child labour .......... and in Victorian times we had a lot of child prostitutes because of the poverty............. and Victoria did not 'reign' she was manipulated by the men around her who made huge fortunes................ nothing changes and how did Britain do this 'divide and rule' of course and it is still happening today just open a paper.
@@velvetindigonight Fully agree. I wish TRUE history was being taught in Schools and Colleges. They've started by teaching about Workhouses, and the World wars. They should start by teaching about feudalism, which to a certain extent is still around.
@@iriscollins7583 Feudalism has been taught in UK since i was a kid the in the 80s. I teach it today also. What an odd thing to say.
44.08 "we don't know where he came from, we don't when/where he left...." but then later look at the same boy and say he looks happy. So you can strip a man of his identity then really look at him and say he is happy.... Wow
The man at the end truly had great resemblance with the little boy in the picture. The nose, the cheek bones.....
yes he did that last scene was beautiful to watch.
@@afaria6173 Yes, it was !
The hairline
His grandchildren looked like the painting
@@hnic731 Wonderful when genes stay in a family over many generations!
The highest rate of Sickle Cell Anemia is in Turkey. The origin of the mutation that led to the sickle-cell gene derives from at least four independent mutational events, three in Africa and a fourth in either Saudi Arabia or central India. These independent events occurred between 3,000 and 6,000 generations ago, approximately 70-150,000 years.
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Would have liked to have seen more follow-up with Mr. Cox's story and DNA testing with David Jolly.
Why would you feel guilty about the actions of your ancestors?
History is just that history and it can't be changed.
Only the present can be changed and the changes can impact the future.
it's all your fault william
@@johnsmith-bx4rn Jokes on you.
I am not American or English and the country I am from has no history of holding slaves or participating in the slave trade.
We can change destiny of the future only if we act bravely and intelligently now,the past is there to remind us what we went through in the past.NEVER forget the past!!!!!
Because most with this history are still enjoying the benefits.
I agree. I have never met anyone serious who has claimed anything else but do think its funny/odd that so many people who say this are happy to take credit or feel pride for the achievements of their ancestors. How does that work?
1.25 million slaves were taken from Britain and Ireland by Africans. Can I get a CZcams program about my ancestors, Timeline?
I'd watch a docu about the Barbary slave trade
Make it. You can make this. After you post, send me the link so I can watch. :)
Also, the Irish where at the start of a Renaissance when the Vikings and the English came and decimated the Island. Hundreds of years before Italy and the rest of Europe. Imagine how much further advanced the Human Race could be had that period been allowed to continued. Many people are unaware of this. I suspect that the reason is connected to old prejudice against the Irish that still exist even to this day. What spurred the Irish Renaissance was the religious culture that had evolved on the Island. The Monks created schools and was busy educating the population. They literally had schools for children and taught writing, math, science, and art. It is a very little known fact of history. The Book of Columba aka The Book of Kells was created at this time in the 9th Century.
@Scott no it's because that goes against the apologetic leftist agenda
Rich Peacock hmmm, which Western Africans held white slaves?
That white guy looked exactly like that kid in the painting
Yes, you are correct!! Or a couple of his grandchildren in that photo!
Why doesn't he just do a DNA test? Autosomal DNA would at least give him some more evidence.
Totally and still with the African hair all those generations later. Incredible.
Yes, it is wild how similar he looks to him! Down to a similar facial expression.
He is not white
34:25 Grandma has an afro it's obvious she is part negro/hebrew
As someone said on this thread, this presentation has been sanitized. There is a reason why these male English nobles kept their black male servants so close to them and showered them with benefits and gifts.
The first slaves were sold by their own people.
@@juliesprik9479 a convenient truth descendants of system benefactors always bring up. However, similar to the international drug trade, sellers wouldn't be selling unless there was a sick desire elsewhere for the goods.
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The inside of that house and painting are beautiful.
🏆🏆🏆Thank you for the information on the history of British Slave Trade.
Bro got the same hairline , come on 😂😂 but yeah this is amazing!
Looking almost exactly like his ancestor--just different skin color. We got strong genes.
Exactly, amazing
You guys literally changed the title of the video from "Modern Brits trace their heritage to Role in the slave trade? What is going on with this channel?
Saw that too!
Because modern Brits are born of the slave trade, they are derived if that. Thus, any trace they make will revert back to a conversation of the slave trade. Making the discussion of the role Britain played in it a very real and important one to have when a person is trying to discovery WHO THEY ARE.
@@francescapowell1538 right I'm sure my grandparents who had to steal food to survive benefited greatly from the slave trade
Whire bad. That is what is going on.
Even though I'm mixed race English /Jamaican.. The UK still has a lot to answer for for their involvement in the slave trade...
i hate whites too
Isn't ending the institution good enough? Do we have to self flagellate in the streets until our bones show?
@@vostokcosomonaut5205 Indeed. All it does is continue the hate.
Why do we have to answer for anything people did 200 years ago?
@@MrSpiderman1321 Then you are a sick person
Read about the great Dessaline and Toussaint Louverture.
Iconic duo. France will never forget
I wonder if Mr Jolly every got a DNA test in the end?
9th of 8th
Me too, this was filmed in the 1990s when DNA testing was very expensive and not widely available.
Excellent documentary. Thanks for posting.
does anybody know what the intro song is called???? so beautiful
The dislikes must be related o the Slaves Traders. Truth Hurts lol
Idiot
Mr. Jolly looks just like his ancestor! Same nose, hairline...How cool is that! 🙌🏽
RIGHT!! The hair texture and the hair line the shape of the head and that nose!
Jodielo Lantigua YES! I would be so proud if I was Mr.Jolly! I would want a copy of that painting!🙌🏽
@SV Green Turtle yes... yes.. yes i did ☺️
I dont mean to be rude but I didn't understand a single thing that man said. P.S there is no such thing as race, it's a dumb antiquated idea, yes there are humans that have different attributes but that doesn't make them part of a different "race" every human being is a human being, there are traits that come from different geographical regions but that's it mate!
You're not being rude you're being ignorant and playing semantics. There ARE different races whether you like it or not.
A race 'within' a race is a terminology thing but that's how it's been structured, think of it as different sub species.
@@gottliebdee263 You are the ignorant. The only race is the human one
@@gottliebdee263 >white people are the master-race (according to pseudoscientific "data")
>scoring the lowest in mathematics, history and the sciences among almost all other races with well-established schooling systems.
But you keep telling yourself that there are "differences" lmfao.
Not to be pedantic. - but yes there are such a thing as race. - when scientists in the future dig us op, they will categorize us as different races. We are compatible to interbreed. - but we do have different races. - there is however nothing to suggest that one race is better than the other, and we are equal in the human eyes. - but racedifference, yes, that is a factual thing.
@@mortyjansen399 The term and concept of the word "race" is inherently racist. The differences are in ethnic origin not racial origin, which is a construct. So I am not disagreeing with you, just reframing the vocab.
Jolly good as they say. We don't a have a clue who is our ancestors .it's very informative.
I did not understand one single word the old dude in the blue shirt after @ 40:00 said! So frustrating😣... and I do have my subtitles on -there just aren’t any there.🥺
Now, this is really interesting.
John Paul Don’t get me wrong please. Modern British generation is very gracious and civilized.
Indeed
Catholic Commando huh?
Worst part... the enslaved never got anything!!! 😔😔😔😔
The slave traders got a pay off so big that tax payers only finished paying it off in 2015
Wrong.
Great doc.
Great Britian wasnt the only country. How come nobody talks about Spains role or Italy s role (Vatican/Catholicism), Portugal, Dutch- Netherlands.. Aw heck Europe.
Because the film is about 'Great' (haha) Britain....
They do, look it up! However this doc is about Britain's role, I dunno...maybe cos it was made in Britain by some British for a British audience...?
It is not OUR NATION who TRADED in HUMAN CARGO, it was the UPPER CLASSES of this NATION who TRADED and took the PROFIT.....
The elites always want to distance themselves from the rest of us, until it comes to sharing the blame. Funny how that works
@@charjl96 His-Story was written so and is still written by THEM, it is by their BOOKS we LOWER CLASSES are EDUCATED, by their LIES we are TAUGHT them to be TRUE, and this TRUTH is of DIVISION of a NATION based on their LIES designed so WE blame each other, their MEDIA!
@James Registe The UPPER CLASSES, they WROTE HIS-STORY and by this we poor STATE EDUCATED are DECEIVED by their BOOKS of LIES which extends across THEIR MEDIA OUTLETS LICENCED by GOVERNMENT= POLITICAL CLASSES!
Scott Johnston what is driving your claim that the Jews were anymore involved than the Scots .after all there are more West Indians with Scottish surnames than Jewish surnames .
This was so interesting! 👍🏾
This was such a load of bull, you sir or more likely madam, are misinformed
I can't believe that there is no way to tie Mr. Jolly to the young man in the painting. Presumably, the young man grew-up, held jobs, was married, had children...died and was buried. it would be a lot of work, but surely some records must still exist.
Agree
Selected amnesia! Ignorance is bliss! Nothing in school books today.
Steven Austin Ot really isn’t. Schools briefly mention America’s involvement and a lot on Martin Luther King. I (and many others) only learnt about Britain’s true involvement later in life through our own research.
I learnt about it 30 years ago in my middle school in southern England!
Charlotte Bruce Really?!? It’s incredible how much it differs. I’m in London and I didn’t even know we had “middle school”. Thought that was American schooling system.
It’s written in the DNA. We will all have proof of this history before long as we get our DNA results. Makes us all one family, which we are with little variations, so that these transgressions against one group or another become sins against all. I agree with Mr Jolly, it’s better to know. I know for myself.....family seeking class and fortune in colonial America now shows trace of West Africa and Melanesia! Surprise, but a proud surprise for me. Makes us culturally richer and the story more beautiful.
I just vomited
Just because you have some black ancestry doesn't mean they were slaves. What do you even know about it?
Bob Flendorg we can see what you are. Treat the world to your vasectomy.
@@cabbking So your ancestor was murdered by a black man?
glacier Washington pigs vomit too, only that they eat their vomit
I notice that a comment made by myself a short time ago detailing some uncomfortable truths about the slave trade and the complicity of the Africans themselves has been removed. That is the world in which we now live.. a sick society of Stalin like expunging of our history.
Curious why you felt it necessary to speak on that truth when the topic is about British involvement.
Seems you are insinuating that since African played a part, Britains involvement must be ok? At the end of the day, Europeans (and Americans) can still to this day show the profits and wealth from that awful and atrocious enslavement of African peoples.
@@daughterofdiaspora So do the descendants of traitorous african tribes.
You can see the same in Glasgow's Merchant City. Streets are named after them as well.
Very interesting
"The love of money is the root of all evil."
Exactly "Not money".
You can love being rich without being inhumane to others, but that mentality is very rarw.
Nobody becomes rich being honest, there'is always a " deal" behind the scenes....
The painting of the black kid was of father and son but the family removed all evidence of that!
You may be right. That Jolly guy did look some what like the white man in the painting.
@32:50 - I love the dreary music in the background with the close-up candid shots of those unsuspecting peoples faces. .., Sickle Cell Anemia is not only found in Africa and it is not a genetic element exclusive to blacks or to a select number whites with a black slave ancestor defining some difference between races. It also has always been a commonly found trait throughout Arabia, it's found among Persians, East Indians as well as among Eastern Mediterranean and Southern European whites ; ie- Italians, Lebanese, Greeks, Albanians, Croats, Turks etc.
Yes but they carry the Benin trait of sickle cell , the only one that was independently outside of Africa is in Saudi Arabia and India
The truth will out. With it comes change. Change for the better
David Jolly and the Boy have exactly the same Forehead Hairline ! In the words of Herol Brown ..." no doubt about it " love from the whiteskinned new forest ( but they ain't seen their GreatGreatGrandparents !)
Dude look and sound like a white Scottish James brown!!
12:35 - Ahhh, the all so common habbit of connecting to the miniscule amount of slave blood someone has as a 2nd hand victim; but none to the otherside of which he clearly is predominantly. It is likley he has as much Slave master DNA as Slave DNA
Yeah some of these white people find out they have 3% African DNA and start wearing Dashikis and celebrating Kwanza lol
every nation had and has slaves of all nations.. lets not agree with it BUT lets wake up. this fallen world is evil. this causes hate?
i know its scary, what if black people revenge? this is probably the same concern as those blurring history and not teaching it in schools. it's important for people to know history and know where they came from. history tends to repeat itself, and blurring it won't reduce the guilt and shame if what was done and what continues to be done to black people physically, mentally and systematically.
Excellent documentary, thank you. What a remarkable young man: a refreshing attitude that is clearly serving him well. Learning from the past and moving forwards is key.
Why is this a question?
It’s not taught in schools
Guess what lads, we're in buckingham palace too, hahahahahaha..................
Kevin Akol Oh yeah..., many of us have long known this.
Francesca Powell Lool he just discovered this. Let him have this victory. It’s better to know late than to never know.
At least the program acknowledges the source of the worst racism, those who fought the Abolition movement, the slave traders and slave owners.
If they have a few free beautiful Caribbean plantation house , put me down for it .
Im in no way excuseing the crimes of my nation of which there are many
However i do wish to point that today 14 million people live in poverty in the UK and in terms of inequality of G7 countrys its second only to the USA and is in fact the only country that has seen inequality rise this century.
My point is this.
The British empire exploited the known world from china to the east and the americas in the West. However a very small percentage of this country profited from the vast amounts of wealth which was accumulated, manopolised and out right stole and that small perctage exploited just as many of their own nationality and race from the early centuries and most of this countrys population lived in poverty in at the time was the richest country on earth... and many still do today.
If your looking for reparations in terms of money please come nock at my..
Ill look with you 🤦♂️
I certainly havent benefitted from this empires past wealth
sorry but the British 'borrowed' a lot of wealth from it's several African colonies, used Africans for cheap labor and even after colonisation 'invited' Africans and carribeans to the UK to build the economy. for 400 years it had enough wealth to develop and become a 1st world country. it was generous enough to make African countries 3rd world countries. there's poverty everywhere I suppose but it's much worse in some places. The British still advertise their universities in several African secondary schools.
@@iffybaby8410 the majority of british people living in this country up until close to the second world war loved in poverty
Things were so bad during the first world war the standard of recruitment for soldiers had to be lowered since many were undernourished
While im not arguing are government exploited cultures and people it also exploited its own
We may have been the richest country on earth but very few benefitted from this wealth
what does that have to do with this video? and british poverty is very different from poverty in other parts of the world.
@@TheMrgoodmanners im making the point that while those in power exploited much of the world they came into contact with..
They exploited those within their own country too.
While britian was celebrating its stage as a global power within the 28th century some parts of the uk had an average life expectancy of 21 years
Very few people benefited fromthe wealth accumulated
The rich exploit the poor
This is the same in the uk as it is the world over
and the spanish the portugese the dutch the danish the swedish but the brits was the no 1
Disagree think you will find it was the Arabs/Ottoman Empire etc etc, Barbary pirates etc etc
Michael Snelling nope it was the English ,check your history .
@@andrewtrip8617 Far more slaves went from Africa to Brazil, than to the British colonies.
It makes truly wonder now what is exactly meant by the words, the meek shall inherit the earth. It sounds straight and to the point, you dont fight you die and you go into the ground. The earth! What else can it mean?
ThANKS
Some of this makes no since. MYSTERY? WHEN THERE'S DNA TESTING TODAY
Those tests are not accurate enough.
I beg you, learn English spelling
TenJ59 you would need the ancestors dna, 🧬 where will you get that from?
24:59
How can we stop thinking about our history when the subject is taught at school?
Where are my ancestors buried? Which island?
Really confused with the focus on sickle cell?
That's not true because not all black people have the sickle cell trait or Gene me and most of my siblings don't have it but I do have a sister who has a trach because of her father but it's not one of my maternal line or my paternal line personally
Great documentary thanks for posting
Wrong
Aruba Bonaire Curacao, saba Sint Maarten, sint Eustatius were also from England for a while .
Shameful and painful to say the least.. Barberic is a mild word ..
I imagine Mr. Jolly said some very interesting things, I wish I'd understood them.
Irish Roots growing up in Scotland but still has that thick Irish accent.
His accent is thick Scottish
What Was Britain's Role In The Slave Trade? - Not great.
They also decided upon abolishion, and enforced it across the globe at great cost to themselves.
Don't forget that.
@@meltingeinstein3012 I reiterate: Not great.
@@Rayoscope oh OK, I personally think that abolition was one of the greatest parts of the history of Britain, but feel free to disagree 🤦♂️
Rayoscope it depends if you look at it in context of the geopolitical circumstances of the time ,without the slave trade we would have ceased to be an independent nation .
My ancestors says I am 42% Nigerian, and 22% Cameroon/Congolese Bantu people. I also have 6% England Northwestern European, with 3% Irish, and 2% Norway with 1% Wales. Can somebody please explain why I have European blood? (I am African American living in Midwestern United States)
Why wouldn't you Charles? It's a fact on the record that millions of Europeans, either by their own free will or as forced indentured servants, travelled to North America in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. It's also on the record that around 400,000 slaves of African descent were transported to North America during the Atlantic slave trade. Therefore it is quite obvious, and also well known, that people of African and people of European descent came into contact with each other in North America. it is also obvious and well known that these people from differing continents bred with each other. Either European slavers breeding with their African slaves or by other means. So it is fairly unsurprising that you, an American male in the 21st century, has DNA from both the African and European continents.
The average African American is part European, slave masters raped black woman from the slaves ships to the plantations
No wonder there's racial tension at the moment with such biased reflections.
and not a single mention of a DNA test in the entire documentary. strange for 2020
Samual and Fances seem more like closet lovers re;ationship verse a father an Son relationship or the man servant
girlygamer twisted mind, indeed
Actually it was common for wealthy persons to be painted with their servants included as a status symbol. The servants showed that the wealthy person had reached the point of being able to own another human being. It would be the equivalent of modern day millionaires posing with Bugatti's and Lamborghini's.
The tribal song at the beginning is an Igbo tribal song ❤
The shame of all nations in trading slaves (some 27 million people in the world are still in bondage), and the British pride in ending it.
Our Heavenly Father loaned mankind the Earth and violating the rights of others always came with consequences
Well it does bear testimony to the prophecy of God for want of a better name to Abraham..know for sure that your descedants shall be led captives in a land that is not their own ,and through them all nations shall be blessed.
Such opulence is astounding .0
This title is a rhetorical question, right? lolll
Why wouldn't David Jolly undergo the genetic testing necessary to, definitively, determine that they do have that African ancestry? That may not, definitively, prove that they are related to the child in the painting; but, it would be a step in the right direction; it would give them something, perhaps an indication of which direction to go in next, to prove their relatedness to that child.
It makes no sense that this documentary did not address that.
It is one thing to colonise people give them your language and culture while taking theirs it is another thing yo enslave a fellow human being.
As exemplified by this comment section, people will find any way to detract from the topic at hand and sweep reality under the rug. This happened. Own up to it. I'm sorry learning about this is shattering your isolated world view.
I havent seen one comment denying the fact Britain had slaves.
What people like you seem to ignore and brush under the carpet is every other culture has done the same.
Ottoman empire, Almohads invading Spain, the Barbary slave trade, the fact that the African tribes sold the slaves to the European empires.
Deny, deflect or use whataboutism. At least two of those components are front and center in virtually every comment here. Reinforcement of what people need to believe is more important to them than the truth of Britain's legacy. It's why racism still has a firm grip in the UK.
peoplebeforeprofit Well said Sir, well said.
Why do we still beat ourselves up about our role in the slave trade when it is still going on in Africa today? Why do we not discuss West African's role in providing the slaves in the first place? The were equally guilty.
It wasn't slave trade, it was rather slave kidnapping. Europeans had the guns and desire for extreme brutality, someone like that doesn't pay, takes by force...
@@nekongovitankanga No. African themselves were responsible for kidnapping African's. They then handed them over to Europeans, who in exchange traded them for Rum, Whisky and guns. In the West the role of African's has been largely ignored for politcal correctness. Africans themselves handed over men from rival tribes as a result of raids, often using the guns supplied by Europeans.
“We hate because we are taught to hate. We hate because we are ignorant. We’re the product of ignorant people who have been taught an ignorant thing which is that there are 4 or 5 different races. There are not 4 or 5 different races there is only one race on the face of the earth and we are all members of that race the human race but we have separated people into races so that some of us can see ourselves superior to the others. We thought it would work I guess it hasn’t worked. It has been bad for everyone and it’s time we get over this business. There is no gene for racism there is no gene for bigotry. You are not born a bigot, you have to learn to be a bigot. Anything you learn you can un-learn. It’s time we un-learn our bigotry. It’s time to get over this and we best get over it pretty soon. The ignorance of thinking that you’re better or worse than someone else because of the amount of a pigment in your skin. Pigmentation in your skin has nothing to do with intelligence or with your worth as a human being it’s time we get over that.” - Jane Elliot.
Im not form the U.K but was there a Jim Crow era in the U.K? Im trying to find out more about Black history of the U.K. 👋🏽🇺🇸
Edgar not really. The racism in the UK was very much under the carpet not as open and hostile as Jim Crow and the KKK. Black people arrived in large numbers in the 1940s in the Windrush from the Caribbean islands, and they experienced some racism in the 1940s onwards but not like in the US. However, it was still racism, and it was still punishing.
@@brendakipkemoi2738 oooh ok maked sense WWll U.K need more men from the Caribbean like Jamaica and Trinidad right? Was there no blacks that dont jnow where they came from like the 1700 or 1800 for example most black people in the U.S dont know where they came from they was stripped off there culture like there names and origin. It seem majority of black people in U.K know where they come like you said 1940's
@@503redbull I think our black brothers and sisters from the Caribbean living in the UK can quite easily pinpoint the island their grandparents came from in the 1940s. But if we were to go further back to where in West Africa their ancestors came from that's a bit of a harder task. I remember hearing in this documentary the narrator saying that most of the plantation owners destroyed their records to bury their involvement in the African slave trade and sold their plantations in the Caribbean to pack up and invest in manufacturing back in the UK. So I imagine tracing that ancestor who came from Africa would incredibly difficult. As an African this hurts me because here we know where we came from and still practice that specific culture today. For instance, my tribe can trace our migration from Egypt to the Sudan, and finally to Kenya almost 10 generations back.
@@brendakipkemoi2738 Wow thanks for sharing that. Yeah most black people that lived in the U.S fron many generations really dont know if you were ask them for example the person will say California then you ask your family? Again California and so will be the same awnser maybe a different state. Was black soldiers treated like heroes in the U.K in WWll? Because in the U.S they was treated like trash 😔
@@503redbull it's interesting you ask that, sorry my answer is long again. Now that's where the UK differs from the US, a great deal in fact. I'm African but I lived in the UK for almost 15 years. I know that black WW2 veterans from the Caribbean and even from my own country and British colonies in Africa were treated better than black WW2 war veterans from the US. However, they was still racism and they were mostly used as cannon fodder. Not only Africans and Caribbeans suffered but also the Irish (watch the Netflix series Rebellion, the Irish contribution to WW1 and any documentary here on the Easter Rising of 1916 and Michael Collins/Irish War of Independence to understand more). To be fair, however, if you served the UK in war regardless of race you would be recognised. Remember the British offered many African Americans freedom when they fought on their side in the 1776 war of American independence. They brought them to England as free men. Many African WW2 war veterans got medals and recognition for their war service. There's a regiment for instance known as the War Brigade of the Gurkhas. These men are Nepalese, but due to their brave service in the British army they are automatically given citizenship and recognition after war service. Many black UK personalities are nowadays being knighted or elevated to the House of Lords by the Queen. So in short the UK is better than the US in this regard, the racism is not as pervasive, but it's there and the UK remains a class society.
Methinks thou doth protest too much, bras. lol
Every one should read the book “Roots “
Nirupa Chadha even the author claimed that the purpose of roots was to create a myth .
The blacks of Britain seem to have a far more constructive stance in the world as cerebrally endowed optimist.. blacks in the United States. A sorry comparison. I think always we must embrace our entire lineage .... the victim side and unwitting Legacy of participants side... of a cultural trend... anyone of us could have been born in a cult. Expected to commit monstrous task.. and in most cases acting out those expectations. Shielded from reality by our only experience of life.. in actuality unable to own those Acts.