The Ugly Truth Behind This British Aristocrat's Massive Wealth | Historic Britain | Absolute History
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 19. 01. 2023
- Alan Titchmarsh reveals the shocking truth about Penrhyn Castle and how it was built from fortunes made in the plantations of the West Indies.
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So much wealth the result of so much human misery.
It's so horrible, all those people bought and forced to work so one family can build a castle and show off. That list of enslaved workers, God, that sums up what's wrong with they way wealth corrupts. People far away running the economy built on the blood and sweat of others. Wish it was different today, but much of the world is still run this way, although they don't technically call it slavery anymore--so many people still suffering so someone else can have way more than they need. Greed is the worst human vice.
@@ravenwolf7128 and they built what? A fake ass castle!
Same as today.
the fact that black people even fantasize this culture ( Bridgerton) is beyond disgusting
Wealth is theft
Itâs not just socialist rhetoric
I love that they say âenslaved peopleâ instead of âslavesâ. It means A LOT
Germans no longer call a popular salat dressing a "Zigeuner Sauce", because they don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. Still, they completely ignore the problem of Roma people trafficked into forced street work and begging, the latter involving plenty of children and adults crippled in horrible ways (including multiple limb amputations) by the trafficker gang members and then placed in the key city locations.
It's not enough to get the vocabulary to sound nice, if real actions which aid and compensate the affected people aren't introduced.
Okay I'm glad you love that but these people were slaves. Maybe not the kind you're thinking of but they were still slaves. Because they met the definition of what is a slave.
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Only some Germans follow that absurd attempt to censor normal language. The problem with the exploitation of their own family and group members by Roma and Sinti leaders is the consequence of living in a very hierarchical and strongly patriarchal, misogynistic structure where abuse of all sorts is bound to happen. Since the German government has shown itself unable to do anything against illegal immigration which happens at a much larger scale there is no hope it will enforce proper controls when it comes to citizens of an EU country.
But the ones to blame for this inhumane exploitation of their group members are the Sinti and Roma leaders.
@@Jerseyboondocks The point in saying "enslaved people " vs "slaves" is to continue to recognize their humanity beyond their circumstances, at least thats how I see it.
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Nothing much has changed today. We need to stand UNITED !!!!
History fascinates me, but the cruelty & greed disgusts me...
EVERY nation has some "skeletons in their closet", how many and how they look/got there is a whole other discussion.
Those homes carved out of caves, were the most absolutely beautiful homes I've ever seen! I'd love to live there even today. No running water or indoor toilet included. What an absolutely enchanting place. The most beautiful place I've ever seen. Wow.
I know Knver quite well and they've done a great job of over romanticising the caves. It was a hard place to live
I wonder if they inspired Tolkien's hobbit holes?
@@kyndramb7050 Tolkien taught at the nearby Birmingham University so maybe
The fact that 40 million of today's currency could build a castle in the 1900s vs a hole in the ground today
His whole worth was ÂŁ50m - thatâs not the spend on the castle. theyâve got the comparisons muddled for sure âŠ.
Best episode of the entire series. Bravo!
The part in the attic was neat. The Salt Lake City Tabernacle is similar: wood timbers with lathe and plaster covering them and a void space in between.
đ€Even today, if you want to possess such amount of wealth, a lot of people will have to suffer in the process.
Every billionaire have, at least, somebody else's blood on his hands.
YEEESS! Im saying this for years. You think youve worked for your money, but in fact others did.
You got that right. That or threw someone under the bus, and ripped their lively hood away.
Whoâs blood is on Richard Branson and Bill Gatesâs hands ?
Love this channel its awesome very informative keep up the great work
Lol. The men singing in the castle is a final "up yours" to those mine owners who wouldn't have let them through the door. But I'd be interested to see a whole series on how many of our stately homes were built on the backs of slaves in the West Indies and other places. Our history has been whitewashed for far too long.
Well said, and thank you.
And how many on stolen Catholic church property?
@@FigaroHey - A lot!
@@FigaroHey I often wonder about this !!
A huge amount of Britainâs wealth was from the slave trade and related industriesâŠ.
Basically Mcmansion of it's era.
How sweet Marilyn was! What a gem! Smashing episode!
Very interesting, thank you!
I welcome that long awaited and long overdue insight to the background of British colonial wealth. However, it was far more than just this castle that was funded by slavery and other despicable practices that were condoned by legal system and the monarchs for centuries.
I think it would be appropriate to invest some of GB's time and resources (with a close cooperation with Heritage GB among others) to go through the archives of all sorts and track back the documented and possible sources of income of the royal aristocratis and noble houses across the history and then adron their surviving mansions, manors, castles and palaces with big and brightly colored notice boards, signs etc. stating that this or that piece of British heritage was funded from triangular trade, slavery, excruciatingly inhumane work conditions of the native lower layers of society, with and estimate of so and so many mortal victims, lethally ill, crippled and extremely impoverished men, women and children desperate to make a living while being structurally cut off from chances of getting education to secure themselves a better fate, suffering from the outcome of the work they provided in service of their masters and employers.
A suggestion concerning the notice boards and signs: start from Windsor Castle and Bunkingham Palace. I'm sure it's going to draw even more tourist traffic to your country than living royal free-loaders occupying them (the lack of which doesn't negatively affect tourism in other European countries no longer ruled by monarchies).
That would be all historical buildings. I mean the horrible living conditions of the British working class during the last centuries are legendary.
The british museum would be a good place too. All the stolen stuff they have there.
Well damn. My last name is Pennant. I knew there was some connection but never truly looked into the history beyond the area in Jamaica with the same name as mine. I know my family came from there but not much else. This is interesting.
Your uncles have a castle! đ
Watching from Jamaica
13:55 That hilarious. The wealthy people get compensation, but the enslaved people don't.
To add to the "hilarity" of it all, the compensation was funded by bank loans that were finally paid off only some 10 years ago about 180 years after slavery was abolished. To add insult to injury west Indians journeyed to England after the second World War to help rebuild the country. They worked and paid taxes which partly helped the government to pay off its emancipation Bank loan. What a laugh ... us buying our freedom twice!! And then being told to forget it and move on
slaves/indent labour/ land grabs/ that how empires grow
đ...there's a small town in california named 'penryn' that was named by welsh immigrants who were working as miners in the gold country... quarry men too...
...also, there was a welsh men's choir in the gold town of nevada city/grass valley...they have become co-ed, but they still perform during christmas time... they once sang in a large chamber in one of the gold mines...
Super film
Of all the cultures that are in my ancestry I find my Welsh the most curious right behind my Finnish blood.
A modern castle, I'd live in itđ
Oh my!!!! how shocking that people 500 years ago didn't have the same ideals as we do now.
15:07 itâs driving me absolutely crazy, does ANYONE know who makes the boots sheâs wearing? đđ»
Just for balance ... have a jumpin' Jamaican Reggae band come play đ¶ đ” in that crazy mausoleum!
32:13 "Pennant Castle, built from Plantation Profits and the toil of their quarry labour's. Life was hard for these workers and those throughout Britain". I find this whole summary an insult to the 750 enslaved who toiled in the Jamaican sun and was deprived of all human rights including the ability to strike. Workers get paid. Absolute History, are you referring to the 750 enslaved who were cataloged like chattel as "plantation profits?"
Yes, comparing slavery to being a poor British person is really a way for them to downplay slavery and make themselves feel better about it.
The conversion of the amounts in georgian or early Victorian ( before 1840s ) times to modern times is wrong.
If a annual wage of a servant was ÂŁ10 ( even less for some) and in modern times its ÂŁ25,000 ( or more ) this means figures from early 1800s must be multiple by 2,500 .
So cost of building the castle would be ÂŁ50 million plus, and the man's net worth of 600k would be around ÂŁ1.5 billion which does make sense.
FYI I left out the gdp of those times by comparison to now and the price of gold at that time compared to now as it would take too long but they all come to a similar formula.
wonder though what happened to the sugar cane plantation in Jamaica?
Search engines exist. The history of Jamaica and Haiti are well documented.
@@tomorrowhowever7488 get me a link.because i was searching and did not find anything about that sugarcane plantation.
what a magnificent castle. and or maybe though? most of those buildings were built with blood, sweat and tears.
though how much -poorer - would the landscape be, and not only here, if those castles were not built?
Think maybe of Neuschwanstein in Germany.
Burg Eilts, also in Germany.
Hochosterwitz in Carinthia, the Austrian province.
Or Schönbrunn in Austria.
Also Peterhof, in Russia.
The Dresden zwinger, a - palace - for keeping the hunting dogs.
Still, it is good to know HOW this places came into existence.
Because on the local -tourguide - we seldom or never , find this information.
Suppose this is not a -scheduled Monument-? Otherwise - British Heritage - would not have allowed to put all those cables and wiring and modern lights for the visitors to be put up?
If I had to choose between fewer and less impressive buildings and a better, happier life for other human beings I would chose the latter in a heartbeat!
Hmmm....I have an English grandmother, and a native Canadian grandmother. The difference in the cultures is that in native culture, there were no poor or homeless. When the men hunted, fished and trapped game, the meat was shared amongst the tribe. The elderly, sick, disabled, etc. were cared for. Everyone was clothed, fed and housed. Each member of the tribe did what they could to contribute and in turn, were cared for.
Such a shocking comparison to how harsh the wealthy Brits were to the people, their fellow Brits....I prefer the native way....gone, destroyed, but not forgotten.
âAn Almighty Fakeâ
How fascinating
"Nobody ever made a million dollars. You can only steal a million dollars." -- Fran Leibowitz
Literally makes no sense
@@lisapop5219 Think real hard. I know you can do it.
@@Serai3 except you can. It depends on what time span you are looking at đ
@@Serai3 of course people can make $1000000 in their lifetime. Smh.. and not by stealing it.
You told someone else to think real hard now..but I'm asking you to think extra hard.
Let's say a small business owner makes $100,000 a year profit. In 10 years that's $1000000 that he earned. Ding ding! And he worked hard for it...or she
@@Jerseyboondocks Keep proving my point, little boy.
I mean that's amazing venetian plaster work. Don't downplay it.
Plantation owners profited on slavery and on emancipation. Though enslaved people were to receive training, it reparations were rarely paid out.
Where is my reparations Britain. The Welsh are so interesting to me. The Language, the food, their history. All of it is fascinating. Make a movie already
Micah 5:15
Lotta money in slavery
When the word reparation gets thrown aroundâŠitâs examples like this as to why Britain is built off the backs of exploitative individuals. Of their own, but most of all the most vulnerable of others
Wheres alice loxton? alice roberts? susan lipscomb and other women i see as the best in history narration.
Alot of them squander there inheritance đź
Seems beautiful to me, and not ugly.
Iâm not sure theyâve got the financial comparisons quite rightâŠ. Nobody today with ÂŁ50m in total assets and income could commission and build a great house like that using the best craftsmen in a 10 year project !
Yes because today you would have to pay the workers properly unlike when this was built
'Enslaved people': PC for slaves.
That was a man with little foresight, I mean, he was clearly going to die at some point, and clearly be found out that his castle was all a sham, why not buy an actual castle and redo it the way he wanted instead of 10 years to build a fake? Can you imagine the upkeep on something like a fake castle manor house? Iâd hate to be the owner today. That house has to be a money pit, and for what, to keep up the facade? What odd thinking behind this whole thing
How many slaves did the Ottoman Empire have?
Somehow I never feel them being remorseful when they talk about slaves and or India?!
Same over here in the US.
Wasnât the prelude to this about how this dude personally owned over 700 slaves? Cut to around 10:39, you gushingly say, âIt was all worth it!â
Throughout history most rich people, if not all, have become rich on the back of others causing them suffering and often an early death.
Therefore we should never admire nobility or royalty.
Only in modern days there are exceptions from that rule like actors and artists who become rich by the admiration and appreciation of others.
What is a guinea?
It was a gold coin worth 20 shillings. Equal to about one pound in todays money.
Yes wounds take a long time to heal ... a fact ignored by some British politicians who when faced with the question of reparation to the descendants of enslaved people in the Caribbean, respond that it all happened a long time ago and people should just move on
Interesting their last name was penance, I know its not spelled that way but it seems appropriate. I'm not sure that they DID do any penance for trading slaves though...
One star for this family because they, at least, list their slaves with names and just as the English government reimbursed slave owners for their âproperty lossesâ when slavery was banned, some American Southerner planters were reimbursed as well ($300 per slave), while in both cases the majority of slaves themselves got nothing or next to nothing. In the US they were supposed to get two mules and 40 acres according to an order by Gen. Sherman. In fact, most got nothing.
Thus when Africans tell you your crimes its ignored........
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Its so unpleasant to look on such a beautiful place and to know it was built on the backs and bodies of enslaved people. And then eventually of course at the expense of the livelihood of welsh quarry workers. Who knows how many people starved and died or were beaten and lived their lives enslaved. The number 764 probably represents many many more babies, people who died enslaved....we owe so much of the western world's wealth to enslaved people.
It is wrong to judge people for owning slaves. We have household appliances in every home which weren't available to anyone in the past.
The thesis of this show is that all is right in Britain. The working class that was divided has now healed itâs divisions and all is well. Wow! Strikes all over, the Tories passing anti union laws. It seems the real division, I.e. between the rich and everyone else is worse than ever. What happened to all that money. Does this family still own huge tracts of land. What is the Trust? Is that the heirs of the estate or the National trust? How were the slaves treated? Whippings? What about the 400 dead slate workers? Very poor, very biased documentary. Dave đđ
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As a Historian, this 'Documentary' made me vomit with all the anachronistic language, redefining of terms and wildly baseless assertations.
To bad it was poorly narrated.
Crap show
I told my kids if I ever won the lottery - millions of $, ÂŁ or âŹ, I would build a new Victorian House with an elevator, safe room plus a secret hidden room. Houses today have no personality yet people who a millionaires have plain homes, no spectacular carpentry. Sure the homes furnishings are beautiful but take them out and you have a plain home.
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