Sugar & Slavery: The Building Blocks of Bristol’s 1% | Empires of Dirt
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- Опубликовано: 10 окт 2024
- Sugar was once so lucrative they called it ‘white gold’. For centuries our love of the sweet stuff drove the world economy and helped Britain develop into a global colonial superpower.
But the nation’s sweet tooth came at the expense of millions of slaves who were shipped from Africa and forced to work on plantations in the West Indies and America. At the centre of the sugar trade was the city of Bristol, where men like Edward Colston grew rich from investments. VICE World News host Zing Tsjeng travels there to tell the not-so-sweet story of the human cost that lurks behind our addiction to sugar.
Empires of Dirt is a show about Europeans getting rich at the expense of everyone else. We uncover the ugly history of the European colonial empires that they don’t teach us in school.
Countries around the world were looted for their treasures, people were oppressed and exploited while European powers relentlessly profited. The far-reaching repercussions of colonialism are all around us; from our financial institutions to the way we travel to the food we have in our cupboards at home - and it’s about time we took notice.
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Wait until people find out who makes all their products today.
Here's a hint: it's not free folk.
@Just In credible So are you saying that you shouldn't care at all because people are hypocritical? Unless you grow your own food its practically impossible to be perfect about the products you buy, a lot of us know that and acknowledge that. The device you are using to be on RUclips was probably not made in good conditions, nor was mine. It is fucked but it isn't a reason to not care about other issues. I had an all or nothing attitude for a while and my life has been far better since getting rid of it. I try the best I can everyday but I am not going to give up on everything because some aspects of my life are fucked up.
@@secondjar very well said
Electro Tech America with the 13 Amendment
You're saying that slaves make most of the products we use?! No, most of them are made by regular employees. Many are low-paid & work in poor conditions, but the large majority aren't slaves.
Chaching! Exactly
I like how history is making some people so angry. People really don't like learning their brutal past huh
Learning that would make them confront the reality of privilege they've had for generations literally built on the backs and heritage of others.
@@OjaysReel Lol you do realize that the black slave trade wouldn't have existed if the African royalty didnt view their people as chattel to be sold in the first place right? Learn a little more about your heritage and the privilege you have not living in the third world.
@@jamesbeebe2870 that doesn’t change anything that @ojay is ojay is saying. That doesn’t mean that white people exploit these people
@@jamesbeebe2870 That doesn't counter anything he said though. Did you think it was some intelligent point?
Lol. White people didnt invent slavery. It was already happening to humans of all races for thousands of years. In fact, white people were the ones to mainly put an end to slavery.
While you have North Africans & Asians that still practice it today.
Do a show on the Ottoman, Persian, and Mongol empires.
No that would be racist. Only allowed to bash white cultures on Vice.
And how the queen divided the land after causing major conflicts
@@OutdoorLiving93 The way they've left the world from since the beginning - maybe they need some humble bashing-in.
Out of all those the Ottomans are the only ones you could say still affect the present. There's no point in hyping up Islamic slavery because it doesn't explain anything about the modern world. Spain doesn't have a smaller economy now because Muslims occupied it for 700 years. Ukraine isn't poor now because of Turkish slave raids. The fact Genghis Khan committed mass murder in China is irrelevant now that they have over a billion people. People can prove the transatlantic slave trade explains things about race and economics in the modern world, you're just throwing out irrelevant facts cause you're racist.
@@OutdoorLiving93 ew
GG Bristol you mad lads
Touché
thanks
Those that took down the slave statue in Bristol are fucking lads
@@AM-mv6ro They're vandals.
@@andrewjones575 stay salty mate, there is absolutely no need to have statues of slave owners in the 21st century
Talking about colonialism and sugar to make Brit's tea sweeter... how do you think they got the tea too??
From portugal
@@skatingfreak1670 No from India after murdering millions
@@blznft9513 tea was introduced to England from their ally the Portuguese.
Queen Catherine (from Portugal married to the English King)introduced the English to tea drinking.(Drinking tea was already popular among the nobility of Portugal).
This happened in the 1600s.
When England was defeated in the American revolutionary war they went to India.
From there they imported tea from China and introduced it to India.
It fell from the sky in big sacks with "Fairtrade" logos
Dog eat dog!
This series is absolute fire! Huge shout out to Tsjeng, Vice, and everyone else working behind the scenes for putting this together.
This series is absolutely leftist propoganda.
Is there a dwarf operator?
Yes, clearly ate too much sugar and was raised in bristol
No, its a slave child
He was crawling to make her look taller
This comment made my day.
Shooting from below give a sense of scale, grandeur & authority. Also, I think they wanted to frame the buildings better.
I thought everyone knew about this...
Lot of the younger don't know or tend to forget. Good to remind them
The Brits aren’t like America they censor and hide all the bad things they’ve in history especially slavery lol
considering that there is a lot of dislikes i get some people are even willfully ignorant
@@joyboy6535 they teach this stuff in school in the UK, so history doesn't repeat.
because its a world of deception
“Our love of the white stuff”... sooo many possible other meanings 😂
I’ve been snorting sugar for years
Proper charlie
The others meaning are just as addictive
Hey I have a lot of white stuff
System of the down: has entered the chat 💭
Not even 2 seconds into the video and I’m already getting called “suga”
SOAD
Talking about empires, do a video about the Chinese one. Moreover, if we are talking about colonisation, do a video about China's neo colonisation in Africa
It’s not the same.
And she’s british so why can’t she talk about where she’s from
You know America, Britain and France do more neo colonization in Africa than China does right. Like France has been linked to the assassinations of 22 African presidents since the sixties.
Or American invading countless countries since the Korean war in the 50s
@@leboyneski5464 Ah yes, neo-colonization in the sixties. Debt trap diplomacy is a thing now that China is using to trap poor nations under debt burdens they know cannot be paid back for their own strategic interests.
How about a documentary detailing how slavery from East Africa to Arabian continued long after the trade to Europe and the US ceased?
Shhhhhh....thats against the narrative
@@AyatollahS9430 No, all history of slavery is relevant. You're right that most, if not all, modern day nations have somehow benefited from, or were subjected to the slave trade. It's just that at the present, white males tend to have control of the overall narrative, and have for quite some time now. And in that span, they/we have accumulated the majority of the earth's wealth and power, and maybe now would be a good time to remind everybody just how that consolidation of wealth and power was attained.
It offers us a chance to reevaluate our current circumstances, see where the woven strands originate from, and then, possibly question why the institution of slavery is still very much alive and well around the globe today.
I'm somali and we enslaved people for thousands of years. We sold them as far as Indonesia Maldives etc
Lol they were "kidnapped" no they were enslaved by there own people for wepons and wealth.. how else were do you think African slave empires built? Basically the same thing happening in African nations today
@@AyatollahS9430 This is what matters since we aren't Arabs or East Africans. There are plenty of videos about that. You are correct but disingenuous.
Famously non-European empires never committed violence on any scale
most non european empires aren't still keeping the profits of their invasions, that's the point
@@nachoroman2001 Maybe they should have been better at empiring?
@@nachoroman2001 Japan and Turkey fly under the radar? Considering the majority of Britain’s population lived below the poverty line well into the 1960s, I think it’d be more intelligent to focus the debate specifically on those elites who have benefited from colonialism, rather than enforcing national guilt on a population that sweated down mines and lost limbs in cotton mills
@@totallynotsnrub6570 damn bro you really owned me with that response
@@mathuinh What are you on about? Just because you address one evil, it means you ignore the other?
You forgot to mention that, regardless of the abolition, up to today sugar workers are employed in a semi slavery agreement.
as well as many corporate workers around the world. Fucking capitalism
I dont know.. We grow Sugar in Louisiana and they do ok.
Well If you think locally only, you won't be able to understand the how the world really works. "Think globally, act locally"!
@@fresatx Shame we stopped
Does anyone get the impression that this Vice reporter visited England and got a speeding ticket on the M1 or something?
😂😂😂
She has a partial British accent so I think she is a longtime resident or naturalized citizen.
i get the impression that a lot of fragile white men, who after this video have turned pink, are having their feelings hurt because of historical facts.
@@hotto5150 Everyone is jealous of Europeans. It's as simple as that
Britain gained their immense wealth through the suffering of others, like many other countries that did the same thing. It is what it is mate.
It is what it is, if that's not a cop out I don't know what is, it's like saying people got robbed enslaved and raped to enrich others but it is what it is ... let me save my breath and time
Thats why is important to recognize your privileges
@@PETROVICGAMES Who are you saying is privileged?
@@andrewjones575 If you dont know, maybe you need to watch the video again...
People also used to feed people to lions, chop off their heads and mount them on spikes and burn witches. Things have moved on fortunately. We should be grateful!
I'm jamaican and I can say british influence is still pretty strong in terms of curses arriving from slavery still being embedded deeply in our "modern" culture. Thank you vice for showing this as it's often overlooked.
@detka detka detka in some aspects that is undeniably true. At the same time England has f-ed most of the world at some point in time lol
" Vice your being messy" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 lmfaoo 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
This lady really has a thing for Great Britain
If you think she has it in for the British Empire, just think of how much she resents her older brother.
😂
Or even worse her father
I don't get it
Why does this ignore where sugar comes from... India? The very word "sugar" is from sanskrit, and probably the main reason it was so expensive. You know because of the outrageous distance it had to travel.
Doesn't fit the narrative srry
@@Sossasammy ... And where did the British get sugar in the first place? 🤔
@@Sossasammy Because... The Indian farmers who traditionally grew sugar in India were enslaved and shipped around the world like cattle. I feel like that's an important part of the story... you know about slaves.
@@Sossasammy not slaves indentured labour to be accurate
Until slavery and later more colonialism and later sugar beet now back to sugar cane
Glad to see Colston is finally getting the representation he deserves. I was there when the statue fell, it was a sight to behold.
lol the way she makes these videos are like if the U.K. is the same as if it was 200 odd years ago
she hates us
She’s more than happy to stay here and reap the benefits though!
Get over yourself, and things aren't as different as you tell yourself
get to the bottom of these peoples arguments its always deeply evil, just a nazi but the opposite.
No, the UK isn't like it was 200 years ago. You're just happy to look the other way while benefiting from the crimes of your ancestors. You're like the person who finds out that his great grandparents murder someone and stole their house, but rather than give back the house, you say "well, I didn't do." If you want to show that you're not as bad as your ancestors were, maybe start by returning the stolen artifacts in your so called British museum.
This girl is war on britian😂
Probably not a girl tbh.
@@zyzor probably more of a girl than your ogre looking mother
@@hotto5150 ogres are related to orcs buddy, don’t insult your cousin wife
You mean by describing british history
Yeah but you know she won't mention tje 800 year occupation of Ireland because they are also white which goes against the whole wypipo oppressors narrative
Someone's still salty about that opium
Lmfaoooo
It's clear from each episode she has a boulder sized chip on her shoulder.
LMAO
Why do so many give thumbs down to Vice videos, is it because they are not happy with the topic? Its always good to thumbs up if the material is well presented, factual and you learn something.
Sensitive White men of the internet 🎻😭💦
Possibly the lack of sources for the data they provided
Its mostly rubbish that why.
Do a report on current slavery in the middle East!
They arent about that life 😂😂
I guess you like to embrace slavery 😂
@@serial334 the point is they won’t report on it
North Korean and Chinese work camps too
They won’t bc they won’t have any white men to blame
Its stange how people are so shocked to hear the brutal facts about history like they were just born yesterday and thinks that the world is such a lovely and a friendly place.
Please do something about the ‘Irish famine’, and how it was actually genocide not famine. Ireland had enough food to feed its starving population but yet the British continued to ship food out of Ireland. Leaving people to starve to death, people literally having nothing but grass to eat. The effects of British colonialism on Ireland is not nearly talked about enough.
Absolutely agree
In reality the sh*t way they treated the poor Irish was the same sh*t way they treated the poor everywhere else at the time. Plenty of wealthy Irish who were land owners who did the exact same thing to their own people . Its merely a comfortable mythology to claim all Ireland was in it together against the English .
@@keithrobinson5752
There weren't plenty of wealthy Catholic Irish who made up the bulk of the population.
They had their lands taken away and were banished to areas with very poor soil.
A policy of plantations was pursued ie bringing over planters from Britain who took ownership of Irish lands
Laois Offaly
Munster
Ulster
Cromwellian
Re the penal laws, Irish Catholics weren't allowed to own land, own a horse, vote, practice their religion, be educated etc.
Famine was enabled by Britain and one million died and millions emigrated. The vast majority of the Catholic Irish were reliant on one crop as it was all that could sustain them on the poor land.
A Protestant Ascendancy owned the vast majority of Irish land, many of them were absentee landlords, they didn't even live in Ireland.
There were mass evictions and people and families died in the most horrific of circumstances.
Likewise emigrating many died also.
I agree there were poor everywhere but that's not what happened in Ireland.
@@roisinmalone3015 Sorry its was 'all the English ' is just a comfort blanket , the wealthy who would be considered Irish by even today's standard took the same approach to the poor, there were 'old Irish families ' with lots of land .
And the cause of the famine was poor practice and bad weather , such events where not unknown in history indeed plenty occurred in England prior to this some of which resulted in uprisings.
The difference was two fold , the scale and public awareness and the fact it acted as a driving force to mass movement of people to other countries.
It was not 'planned ' in any way and oddly meant a lose of income to those who you could say only cared about money .
@@keithrobinson5752
The vast majority of land was not owned by Irish people and I have lots of shocking quotes of what the British in power said at the time of the famine, if you want me to post them. Charles Trevellyan, in charge of famine relief, Charles Wood, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Robert Peel, British Prime Minister, Lord John Russell, British Prime Minister, plus newspaper articles from that time.
I would rather not because it's not pleasant but I can if you want.
It is disrespectful to the memory of the Irish famine victims and those who suffered greatly to try and change and rewrite history.
0:04 - " ....... gross Western diet."
🐾 burger
they dont even hide their hatred of the western way of life while enjoing the benefits of it
so many western health problems today
@@2glockzberetamac119 half of Indians have diabetes. Mediterranean diet excellent as is Japan's, so it's a mixed bag really
@@dm8dd ignorance is peace i guess you dont get the benefit of the doubt bcz ur mum probably has health problems bcz of all that palm oil from her macaroni and cheese
You gotta love how she puts sugar made "Old white men" wealthy, VICE always forgets that there's other ethics that were rich too back then
Africans sold of their enemy’s from other tribes to these “rich white men” the pyramids of Egypt that are a huge tourist attraction were built on slave labour. Didn’t see a white European anywhere.
It’s almost like she says “Old white men” referring to the old white men that ran the plantations. Crazy
Social engineering at its finest. Thank you. We remain ashamed of our past. Please, take it all back.
British only got the jump on the rest of the world at the time.
You can't chastise them for the way of the world.
Other empires did. The Romans had slaves, The Greeks had slaves, so did the Persians and so on. What confuses me is the defensiveness of so many in the comments.
Just because other empires have enslaved people it doesn't make it moral for Britain to have done so. Its a two wrongs make a right fallacy. Slavery is messed up. Stop being appologists ffs.
Problem is alot of brits take pride in the empire which is strange.
Here we go again..........................
FIY: Brazil only abolish slavery due to British political pressure and that triggered a monarchy crises over there...
I'm Irish and even I think she's going abit too heavy on Britain at this stage 😅
Mmm... delicious White tears 😭💦 History is hurting my feelings 😂
@@binaryvoid0101 what
do you want her to sugar coat it or what? if just this hurts then you’re not gonna last a while
One thing I found incredible is that skulls found prior to the sugar expansion had incredibly healthy teeth (almost perfect) despite more primitive oral care! 🤯
Thats utter bollox
@@daftwod ruclips.net/video/NpJI3fHOj78/видео.html
The skulls are shown at 4:30
its more than that
They may have looked perfect on skeletons but in real life their was probably a couple of layers of green algae
Most didn’t eat sugar frequently
its almost like this lady is trying to be unlikable every way possible
what an amazing observation.
PORTUGAL kidnapped and enslaved all that people. Brazil only became a republic in 1889, after kicking out the portuguese emperor/robber.
Outstanding series!
Sugar, the oil of yesteryear.
I take two oils in my tea.
@@Johnycum 2 oils don’t make a right
Hasnt ended
That would be whale oil.
Thank you Vice for making these videos. I come from Mauritius where our dark past isn't really talked about for what it truly was. Really appreciate the real history lessons!🙏🙏🙏
Its not sugar that made Britain rich. It was the minds of the people.
And slavery, a lot of it.
@@IhategoogleAlot A few little details any liberal should know before whining about 'slavery in britain'. -
1) britain amassed a debt worth over 40% of the empires GDP at the time to buy and release every slave throughout the empire in the mid 1833. EVERY SINGLE SLAVE.
2) The west african squadron was a branch of the Royal Navy designated specifically to hunt out slaver vessels and impound them, and release every slave on board. This engagments were not only reported back home in britain, but actively celebrated during peacetime. These assignments were 3x more dangerous than assignments in east africa or in eauropean waters. Crew and captains were actually paid bonuses for every slave they freed!
3) In 1082 William the Conquor forbid the sale of one person to another on English soil (Look up the doomsday book for proof) Yes you read that right 1082!
4) The debt britain amassed paying for the release of every single slave (try not to look at the world through your 21st century tinted glasses) was only paid off in 2016. So my taxes helped free slaves. You're welcome.
5) Britain not only abolished slavery accross the empire in 1833 but then demanded that other nations did the same. This was NOT for economic reasons, this was on moral grounds. Economically it was unthinkable. EVERY NATION IN THE WORLD USED SLAVES. THIS IS SOMETHING YOU NEVER SEEM TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT, after The Somerset Ruling in which it was declared that any slave to set foot on English soil was immediatly freed it became a point of principle for britain - Slavery is wrong. NO. OTHER. NATION. Could even comprehend giving it up. The concept of doing so was alien to them.
6) When other nations refused to comply, Britain was the only nation to give it's blood, sweat, tears and wealth to stamp it out around the world and went so far as to blockade any nations that did not repeal any and all laws that made slavery legal. This is what forced the French, Spanish and other European nations to follow suit.
7) 'Honest Abe Lincoln' only made freeing slaves a point of principle in America because he knew if he did Britain would not side with the confederates - Something he feared would happen, so even in America, it was Britains influences that forced their hand.
8) Britain did not have to do ANY of this, yet it did, not for it's own benefit, but because it came to the realisation that the practice of slavery was inherently WRONG and was the only nation on Earth to do something about it.
You live in a world without slavery BECAUSE of Britain.
Now go do one and learn what history actually is.
@@Whoami691 Wow, you are one creepy nationalist. Plus, I am an archaeologist, I'll teach you what history is kiddo.
@@IhategoogleAlot Fantastic counter argument! Wow, you sure showed me.
I'm a nationalist for stating facts now? You're pathetic. Clearly you're terrible at your job. Truth hurts doesn't it?
No wonder why their teeth messed up
Lmoo
www.orchardscottsdental.com/10-countries-whose-citizens-have-healthy-teeth/
Unlike the British stereotype of their teeth the American stereotypes are true😂
racist
Please add this video to the rest of the Empires of Dirt playlist. I almost missed this video :(
How about you try reading history instead on trawling through RUclips looking for content that fits into your ignorant racist narrative.
This is jokes I love the unforgiving style of docu factual to the point. 🙌
So do I
"People like me who came to England in the 1950s have been there for centuries; symbolically, we have been there for centuries. I was coming home. I am the sugar at the bottom of the English cup of tea.I am the sweet tooth, the sugar plantations that rotted generations of English children's teeth. There are thousands of others beside me that are, you know, the cup of tea itself. Because they don't grow it in Lancashire, you know. Not a single tea plantation exists within the United Kingdom. This is the symbolization of English identity - mean, what does anybody in the world know about an English person except that they can't get through the day without a cup of tea? Where does it come from? Ceylon - Sri Lanka, India. That is the outside history that is inside the history of the English. There is no English history without that other history" - Stuart Hall
"there is no English history without that other history" utter nonsense, English history predates Imperialism by thousands of years.
@@igelbeatz Quit acting like Britain didn’t gain their immense wealth through the suffering of others, like many other countries that did the same thing. It is what it is mate.
International trade has happened for thousands of years across the world. Arguing that tea proves the non-existence of English identity is like saying Islamic cultures don't exist because people there like to buy European cars.
@@LeftLaneDreams I never said that, the only person that said that is you, just now. Poor attempt at a strawman.
You forgot to mention the church's involvement
They say Caribbean people are lazy I swear they deserve holidays for generations
They ? That's their masters speaking.
No they need to get on with their lives like everyone else
Yeah that was cool seeing Bristol get rid of that statue. total horror show the history of this world is in a lot of places
Cool to see a group commit an act of criminal damage? Would you like the same done to other statues, such as that of Winston Churchill?
@Beyond Natural How so? Protesters with the same motives & ideology vandalised Churchill's statue, claiming he was racist. His statue was boarded up to protect it against such vandals.
Truth of colonial evil history need to be told. Thank you, Vice.
It needs to be told correct...however shaming modern day Britons for it is ridiculous.
@@AM-eu5tm Agree.
Don't hate the player hate the game.
The politics were there, and law were there, who made those up?
And who gave them the power to do so?
Hating Colston now; the last link of the chain, seem wrong... hundreds of other enabled them to do so, including the locals hunting and trading slaves. It was a different world back them.
Fix current days human trafficking first, and look forward - nothing will change the past anyway.
Else spread the hate to he parliament and the kingdom itself for enabling these people in this type of business, as it was as business operated within the laws of the day, sadly.
Dunno if your a bad knobhead and you go around the world stealing kids I don't think you get to just say well it was legal.
Look at you advocating to stop human trafficking of today but then you say it's a "game" and people shouldn't hate the people being involved in it as they are just "playing the game". 🤔 People like you always shoe your true colours. Every time.
@@Belihoney They're using game in the sense that there are individual actors operating according to rules and conventions, not in the sense of a few people having a jolly. But it's also worth mentioning that people such as Colston were powerful political actors and could've made efforts to change the game rather than capitalise on it. Just as today, oil execs capitalise on the system which enables them, rather than lobbying against it for the greater good.
@@edhaste8550 yes I know. I said my comment from that perspective in mind so it still stands.
Are you james joyce op
Please Make an series on Ottomon Mongol Mughals Persian Chinese empire
This aint the history channel, they have a narrative to keep
@@AyatollahS9430 Exactly. If this channel was really about history, than Vice would not have restricted themselves to only talk about cases of slavery where white people where the oppressors. They would also have mentioned the Arab Slave Trade, The Barbary Slave Trade, The Ottoman Slave Trade, Slavery in Southeast Asia etc; because slavery is not something unique to white people, but is something that has been practised all around the world. But Vice won't mention this, because they have a anti-White bias.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_Muslim_world#Slavery_in_Sultanates_of_Southeast_Asia
Damn this was both very insightful and disturbing - kidnap somebody so they can work up to 18 hours/day in the brutal heat...and if they die? Kidnap more people to replace them like you discard a used battery. History is evil.
In a nutshell
It is misleading to say European slave traders "kidnapped" people. What I am about to say is not an endorsement. Slave trading is a morally corrupt and reprehensible offence. But saying Europeans kidnapped indigenous people although I am sure it happened is not the main modus operandi for slave traders. European slave traders tapped into existing slave trade networks in Africa to acquire their slaves. They bought slaves from African vendors. Saying the British kidnapped people seeks to portray a biased imperfect view of things when the African rulers that sold their own people friend or foe are as complicit.
Tl:Dr. Africans traders sold their own people to Europeans. They were enslaving each other long before the Europeans got there.
@@genetix7173
I think it was a mix tbh. I mean if what you say is correct then that means there were even more dickheads in the world.
Genetix
Yes you are right, the slaves where most of the time prisoners of war from another african tribe. This happens everywhere, even in Europe, most notably in the Viking age where Viking raiders would sell their slaves to other European kingdoms.
Yeaaaa, they actually sold each other into slavery, and take a good look at which religion ran the slave trade.
Wow don't I wish I could go back 300 years and say, "Now stop it! You naughty bunch!"
Theres plenty of slavery in the middle east, china, Africa and india.
So....
Off you pop, if you really care.
That’s a white excuse! If you want to fix it, give the wealth created back to its people. We know you won’t so stfu and sit down
I was being sarcastic.
@@EliteExpat you are actually the worst kind of person. You embody one of the most evil aspects of human nature. I can't believe someone who is so blunted and irresponsible would call themselves a coach.
@@Lvl18Meep say wallah?
This is a typical, shallow misunderstanding of the European colonial system. Companies made money on sugar, tea, opium, ..., but the UK, and every other colonial power lost money like crazy while companies made expenses “public” while profits were privatized (this should sound familiar).
The wealthiest countries had many colonies because they could afford them. The only nation that ever made money on the colonial game was Spain because their colonies had gold and silver. That is some sweet stuff. Every other colonial power simply screwed itself and was too stupid to know any better.
The Spanish were not brilliant, but simply lucky
Didn't the excess amount of silver from the Spanish Colonies cause inflation of the price of silver and almost cause Spain to become bankrupt?
Why do my comments disappear.
Edit Interesting. This one, that doesn't criticize the video, is left up. Censoring now, are we, Vice?
right is right, left is whats left
@m f Maybe they needed to be censored. You don't even know what they said.
And the rich can no gloss over history...her facts are spot-on...unless you prefer faux news... in which case visit: www.orangefacefacts.com.
You were never censored, Karen.
@chrismacsims, my profile name has nothing to do with gender but, okay 😂 You don’t have to know what it’s referencing but just know you’re grasping at straws, Karen 😭
So when is vice doing the Ottoman Empire?
That’s like me watching a doc about the Mexico cartel and getting butt hurt and asking Vice when they doing one on the Russian mafia? Your lack of logic is astonishing. Grow up.
That would be islamaphobic
@@maritzamartinez551
Literally though.
What is with these cry babies?
Victim complexes are interesting
@@arquilli1
Yeah that makes sense. Epic own big guy.
@@arquilli1 I don’t recall the narrator mentioning anything about the British being the only nation that did unspeakable things throughout history. This just happens to be about Britain. Like actually think, it doesn’t hurt.
This is what dutch also did in Indonesia
yes, and mongols to Easter Europe
Britain created the modern world as we know it. They literally invented everything 😂 It would be kind of like urinating in the wind to really attempt to slander them 😂
Anything bad they were doing, so was the rest of the world! The only difference is the British managed to make it so fair and civilised to the best of their abilities at least, that they were the winners of the game, and so the spotlight was placed on them obviously.
The British were the most powerful and influential, intellectually gifted and hard working people in modern history. They also shared all of their knowledge and expertise, and their incredible inventions and wealth (which they still are the world’s biggest charity to this day for the rest of the world).
Great video... What about the sugar companies as they still exist today? Tate and Lyle, etc... How are they connected to the old plantations?
Statues are the social media of the past
books darling books x
@@geeksworkshop no...
@@geeksworkshop imagine writing like this
I’m a history buff so I personally like keeping statues of sick fucks around. It’s a lot easier to point at a statue and say that’s the man that killed thousands of Africans in the congo then pointing in a textbook.
@@ZivineYT yeah, it’s not safe to rewrite history.
“Your descendants will despise you, and your ancestors won’t even be able to comprehend you.”
@ric Gikonyo Why do you despise the British, it was the British who’s wages were undercut by slavery and it was the British who paid for the ending of slavery. Or are you another moron that thinks because a tiny number of wealthy merchants used British ports and owned houses in Britain that British people are somehow culpable.
Vice has high praise on its subscribers to comprehend the nuance of history.
This is pretty good, but the tone could be more sanctimonious.
But thats the way of the liberal
Who holds europe accountable for their crimes against humanity?
I really fail to understand what's the vice in it.
I'm starting to think this gal don't like England
But she’s speaking English
Facts don't care about your feelings
she can leave then ND go back to north korea or china or whatever cfountry she came from. Getting tired of these people tbh
Why does this girl hate the UK so much?
Stating historical facts equal hatred? Hmmm that's an interesting one
@Cole S Their race is disappearing due to High birth rate black immigrants , they should get over that too ma guy
@Cole S Hahaha hmm just wait and see
Gotta love the Brits that spread love and money to the world.
Please do a video on the British oppression of Ireland !
It's not gonna happen. To this people atrocities are atrocities only when it's done white on other color humans not white on white or Asian on Asian or black on black. Just look at the beginning of the video. She said that black slaves were kidnapped from Africa while in reality they were sold by African leaders in exchange for weapons and gold.
@@ocsecnarfnabetse5971 I dont know. I think it's unfair that they're recognizing all the crimes of British imperialism but conveniently skipped Ireland: Britain's First Colony.
We raped and pillaged and any one who put up resistance got hit so hard they never did it again. We enslaved hundreds of thousands and reaped the benefits. Thats Gangster!!! Big up Bristol.
this lady would make a great general on the death star with that accent lol
Why she keep saying the slaves were stolen? They were bought fair n square...
🤣🤣🤣
U know this burns racists when they attack the reporter instead of the truth . 🤷
Hopefully they will eventually talk about different empires than Britain in this series, even ones outside of the EU.
@@Bettie_Rage I said hopefully, I also doubt they will. And in the intro they say this series is about Europeans, not specifically just the British Empire. And its called "EMPIRES of dirt" in plural.
@@Bettie_Rage lol, they say it's a series about European countries, not just one.
This woman is as exciting as a hair-clogged drain.
Brilliant, except for the bit at the end where she says slavery has been abolished. People who work on modern day plantations today are wage slaves and their conditions are little better than chattel slaves of the 19th century.
Slavery is defined as involuntary work though... in modern times people are allowed to choose their employer; it is their choice to choose an employer who pays very little
the term wage slave is a oxymoron !
Longer videos on this series please, so much more to learn
A very blinkered account of historical events tailored to meet the needs of selective viewers
@Scraps G Yes so? The westerners still bought the people and exploited them? The Africans didn't create the market so to speak.
@@SUdatsthecalloftheWU As I understand it theirs still slavery on cocoa plantations in Africa where there is no white man
@@BrianSmith-yq7ys Yes and? There no is similarity between that and the systematic enslavement of 100s of 1000s of people based solely on their skin colour and their believed "sub-humanism" be an adult and realise that Britan was one of the main supporters, creators and profiters of the slave trade. That is incomparable to a few individuals being enslaved on cocoa fields.
@@SUdatsthecalloftheWU I don’t think it was based on skin color just convienence. Just like the Germans enslaved the poles or the romans enslaved the Germans or the Russian communist goverment enslaved their own people.
The British Empire was the top most example of CRUELTY.
German and Belgian imperial colonialism were much much crueler than the British Empire's... The British Empire was however more successful.
I love the series empires of dirt
Such a short video with such a strong emotional impact on our understanding of slavery! 👍👍👍👍
Why does this video falsely portray Britain as the only villain in this?!
Dude slavery was not nice but it was the norm at those time.people can only get rich to the expense of someone.Wealth is being created by this way even today.
We will take EVERYTHING hahahaha thanks dude
It should be mentioned that sugar was also highly valued as a preservative
Indeed, we Eastern Europeans really exploited "rest" to the bone,
*Britain was the first empire to abolish slavery*
And then they turned to slavery 2.0= colonialism.
@@real32487 Colonialism is not slavery. That's why we have different terms for them.
@@GJ-ol5ev "indentured servitude" isn't exactly defined as "slavery" either but there can be parallels. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to google the treatment of natives during imperialism/colonialism and get a basic picture...there were tons of abuses and atrocities.
@@real32487 Right but you're saying that as if Britain was somehow uniquely bad. Slavery has been the norm throughout human history, and throughout very empire on Earth. This includes the Ottomans btw, who used slaves long after Britain and other European empires stopped doing so. The only thing that makes Britain unique when it comes to the history of slavery, is that we were the first empire to abolish it.
Excellent content! Thank you 🙏🏽
Can't wait till 2155 when Vice will make a video about how people got rich by exploiting robot labor to mine lithium on Mars.
Name a civilization that didn't have slaves of some kind at some point. Okay GO:
Yup lots of forts, ports, harbors, beaches, banks, shops, markets, stores, and swap meets all over
Words can’t even describe what these people went through.
Pain, suffering, tragedy.....I’m not having difficult finding descriptive words 🤷♂️
@@MatthewFrazierr you sound like a privileged white person
i wouldn't use the term privileged. Educated and practical maybe. i also use an emoji with a "white person". you should be a detective. Detective Racista Retardado. usted está utilizando una computadora por lo que debe ser privilegiado, así.
Look up a doc named The Price of Sugar to find a similar plight in the DR. You will stop taking sugar with your coffee right away.
whats with the weird hatred of sugar at the start?
It's white! And probably male!
Yeah I mean she's right and all, it's just kind of cringe and hard to take seriously with the intense labelling
@@lm3755 actually it's not sugar that causes your teeth to decay but the bacteria that feed on the sugar that is left on your teeth and as they consume it they poop out acid that actually destroys the enamel of your teeth.
Sooo ... **tips my glasses**
She's wrong ... huhuhu
Okay I will go away now ...
She isn't lying lmao.
Worse she kinda, basically ignores where sugar comes from... India. The very word "sugar" is from sanskrit. This is kinda odd.
Love this segment of vice
Shows Europes true colours
The true colours since the Renaissance and enlightment
What do you mean by "Europes true colours". Do you imply that Europe has a particular responsibilty for slavery and colonialism? If that is your opinion, than I am sorry to say that you are not very objective. Almost every people around the world has committed slavery and colonism against other peoples, or have themselves been victims of slavery and colonialism. Have you ever heard about the Arab Slave Trade, where an estimated 17 million Black Africans were taken as slaves to the Arab World?
I like how she just Wikipedia’d this right beforehand, then condescendingly walked around the city while speaking to us. Geez lady, learn to do an iota of research.
It was removed from the water because Britain loves it colonial and imperialist past and honors the people involved. Slave owners were paid huge sums of money as compensation when slavery was abolished because slaves were considered property. Did Britain pay compensation to the slaves? Now Britain goes about lecturing human rights, moral codes, etc. However, it engaged in slavery and colonialism over 400 years.
This is history, EVERY country on the planet has acting abhorrently at one point or another.
Really, really appreciate the knowledge. Great series.
So many of my western counterparts want to believe THEY are the superior race.
However, history continually uncovers how horrific these people are willing to be...
...for gross amounts of money.
Scouring about the world as though they'll live forever.
The sugar guy was still terrified of death...
...but died anyway.