| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | Book |
Typically schizophrenic book written by a White about the racial slavery that made Britain wealthy which runs from any moral comment about where the money came from to fund the Industrial Revolution - among other things. The title gives away the fact that the author believes racial slavery to have been a trade rather than a human holocaust. This is a pounds, shillings and pence view of history in which human beings are largely absent.
Explains in great detail why Great Britain became wealthy form the exploitation of Blacks and why White supremacy still exists today - because White culture still believes in something-for-nothing since racial slavery made Whites welfare dependent. It also details the corollary issues of the popularity of initially slave-produced goods such as sugar, tobacco and tea - and their continuing use today, despite two of them being unhealthy.
Riddled with the inevitable White race-guilt and Institutional Racism typical of White histories of White history (eg, claiming people can look British; confusing nationality with genes), this still manages to partly-remember that the so-called Slave Trade was a holocaust for Blacks. Yet the usual White ethnic sensitivity about being criticized for being racist shines through - especially given Whites contemporary reliance on racial violence to retain the unearned privileges of centuries past. There is also no talk of how Whites today are morally-compromised when they pretend to take an interest in human rights. It also tries to promote the myth of the unconscious racist and that Christianity is incompatible with racial slavery when it is the necessary bedrock justifying it. This book provides proof that the central tenet of White culture is economics above everything else.
This author never challenges the slave-owner’s assumption - and his own - that slaves are both non-human when required to work but human when being punished. Thus, slaves are deprived of human rights by being enslaved, yet punished when committing an act that would not be punished if a non-human (ie, an animal) had committed it; eg, appropriating their master’s property. If a dog steals something from a human, one does not prosecute it for theft, because the animal has no human rights and, therefore, no human responsibilities. Farmers, after all, do punish their cows for damaging farm buildings. This schizophrenia (the actual realization that people cannot be property as animals can), inherent in all exploitation is not usefully-explored in case the writer’s own White supremacy be revealed. Yet hiding it, in so obvious a manner, only makes it all-too clear. He even has the temerity to be surprised that slaves given extra privileges by Whites were just as likely to be rebellious against slavery, even though there can be no privileges in a slave system since once is still a slave. As well as sucggesting that a slave denouncing a rebel slave plot was loyal. The author is still clearly a slave to the brainwashing he has received from Whites.
Although a good primer on the ethical emptiness of White culture it is a little too academic for its own good. Worst of all, it does not explain why Whites continue to choose savagery as a way of life while feigning genetic and moral superiority. Capitalism & Slavery is a better read because it contains insight as well as hard facts. Most importantly, it fails to explain why Great Britain abolished the very trade that proferred it the greatest profits.
The book does, however, stress the uniqueness of Black slavery in the British Empire since it was designed to last forever with Blacks always being slaves for a thousand years. But he does not look at the psychological affect of dehumanisation on either the slaves or the slavers - almost as if it never really happened and was nothing more than a bad dream.
Nevertheless, it is written for the average reader and is, thus, highly accessible.
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