| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Are our State schools allowed to teach history? | |
| Posted by: | Peter Evans | |
| Date/Time: | 24/06/20 16:44:00 |
| Another fascinating David Olusoga TV programme looked in some detail at the slave compensation records. These revealed that many more people than we imagined had, over time, inherited a small share of some slave holding and got a nice little 'cheque in the post' from the government. Collectively, this compensation supported a wide range of industrial activities in the UK, so it wasn't just the obvious ones, like sugar and tobacco, that 'grew on the backs of slaves'. When I was working in a school on a 'local study', an 'Afro-Caribbean' boy asked why he had an English name but his Indian friend had an Indian name, which led us to look at how Caribbean slaves were given the names of their owners. |