The Dark History of the UK’s Biggest Mansions | Empires of Dirt
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
- VICE World News host Zing Tsjeng investigates how many of the UK’s beloved country homes are steeped in colonial and slave trade connections. The answer? A lot of them.
Once a symbol of aristocratic power and influence, now these country manors are visited by millions of tourists every year. But lurking behind the fancy exteriors are legacies of Britain's colonial past, with many built or bought with the profits of forced labour. Heritage organisations have started to work on research projects to understand the true context of these country homes.
The houses themselves have stood for centuries, let them stand with a deeper knowledge and understanding of their - unairbrushed - historical context.
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Empires of Dirt is a show about Europeans getting rich at the expense of everyone else. VICE World News host Zing Tsjeng uncovers the ugly history of the European colonial empires they don’t teach us in schools. Countries around the world were looted for their treasures, people were oppressed and exploited and European powers relentlessly profited.
The far-reaching repercussions of colonialism are all around us, from our financial institutions to the food we have in our cupboards at home - and it’s about time we took notice.
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Cool now talk about modern day slavery happening all over the world especially by the Chinese and gulf royals.
no but Britain is bad our ancestors were rasicts and so are we!
They won't, because Vice is a propaganda errand boy for the mulitnational banking/corporate empire that rules those two complexes.
Vice iglgnores the global empire of today, modern debt-slavery of today, in order to stir race war based on the past events of dead people. That way, the global empire can get retard commie debt-slaves to fight the other debt-slaves about history.
this series isn’t about modern day slavery it is about dirty empires-look elsewhere
Slavery in China?? How dare you say something like that.
this series is only about british colonialism.
"Britain had a dark history in building their mansions"
Everyone in the world: *Pretends to be in absolute shock.
To be honest, you only hear about America's role in the slave trade.
One forgets that Britain was also a part of it.
@@lu881 and everyone forgets Britain ended it 😋
Wow censorship is massive on UA-cam, I wrote comment just stating British spent large sums of money to stop the slave trade and that doesn’t fit the narrative and comment blocked but why it’s all facts
@@glennhurley7300 if you think white people fought hardest to end the slave trade, boy do i have news for you
@@Jamie-cj7hz the was the only people with the power to stop and compensated slave masters I get your point but without that power it wouldn’t have changed
i like the part where shes wearing clothing made by child slaves from her own nation
I love the part where you assume her nationality based on her looks and make yourself look stupid on a public forum
You can tell from her name she’s clearly of Chinese descent. Not racist, stating the obvious
@@SaDclann she's of Singaporean descent for one and two nationality and descent are two different things. And I didnt say anything about her being racist quick to jump to defense though
The figure "1/3 of stately homes" applies to the National Trust alone, of which the 93 properties does not refer exclusively to stately homes. A third would imply around 300, which applies to "houses". The National Trust owns about half the houses in the vilage of West Wycvombe, nearly all of which are ridiculously small and no where near being considered a "stately home".
There are currently over 3,000 stately homes in the UK, which is nothing compared to the 93 quoted. The National Trust owns less that 10% of these!
You’re absolutely correct. Plus if we add together Stately Homes (of which there are actually 4000), AND Manor Houses, there are well over 10,000 in Britain.
Don't let's let data get in the way of this tripe.
And? Literally every reasonable person will assume that far in excess of 50% of stately homes have non-trivial financial and lineal history directly related to slavery. Does it matter? The number of country houses, manors, stately homes, whatever that have direct connections to imperialism and any of a number of the many genocides that Britain effectuated is, y'know, 100%. 😂
I wonder when Vice will make a vid about modern day slavery in the Middle East
or modern day slavery in america
@@doorknob3937 look at u protecting the Arabs
They wont. It dosent fot their narrative. Only anti white propaganda. Anti western.
There is a doc called 'the megacity built by slaves' made by vice
They already did... It’s your problem if you decided to not even look at it
The dissonance between the owners and the 'slaves' still exists today in many industries, clothing, mining etc
Exactly.
Somewhere along the line, whether it's cocoa or a pair of shoes or your phone or a tin of tomatoes, people are horribly exploited.
Most people don't care and wilfully avoid even thinking they've bought into something that's caused misery to a person.
Slavery exists on many different levels. And at the source in numerous countries there millions in slave conditions. Fact.
I hope I can have some influence in the future to address the issue.
@@finngrant234 Lol, the arrogance of some people who seem to think no one has ever said or thought any of this stuff. Nearly every single workplace functions in the same way, sorry to say it to burst your bubble, but this is life, if you can't accept it then check out.
@@Lolp821 i think you need to check out
@@finngrant234 This is a delusional take
What’s your solution then captain? I’m sure you built your phone from scratch with American steel....
Why don't we talk about the immense oppression and suffering British working class people have suffered throughout history. Most British people's ancestors were not aristocratic slave owners, they worked down mines in lethal conditions from the age of 6 (long after slavery was abolished by the way) , often unclothed because of the heat, and were forced, against their will, by that same ruling class to (for all intensive purposes) sacrifice their lives on warships and on battle fields.
Of course the shameful history of slavery's role in the British history needs attention, but implying that all white people throughout history were somehow privileged is massively, massively offensive. You won't find much privilege in my ancestry, nor will you for 90% of the population.
Normie ass comment lol
The whole white privilege idea is something that's imported from America and it's about social advantages within American society. It really has no place in discussion about the history of British Empire.
Britain does not have much land and therefore the peasants enjoyed a relative freedom rather early on. But having nothing forced them to work in the mines. In Eastern Europe, where I am from, the peasants had 0 freedom until the late eighteenth century when even the slaves in the Caribbean were starting to be freed.
@mVP estimated Guess. What's you're estimated Guess - 90 percent of British people are descended from landed gentry?... Are you?
@mVP consider 1% controls 80 percent of the wealth or something like that... 90% peasant population seems about right.
"Here's an Abbey, if it looks a bit like a church, that's because it was a church"
They arent woke enough to know what an abbey is
Do one on Singapore. A country of modern day Country squires living off the poor in south east Asia. Singapore is where the ultra rich of Asia stash their money.
Shes from singapore, so that wont happen lmfao
So I rest my case about colonialism.
@@Vardalon This makes no sense. Appeal to hypocrisy to justify colonialism.
Justifying colonialism with another countries issue is straight up deflection... Still doesn’t excuse nor does it derail from the fact that British and European empires and history is tainted with colonialism, slavery, and racism. It’s history. Accept it and let’s move forward.
@@MsFiyi I am missing the part who sold the slaves to Francis Drake, or anyone else for that matter.
Doesn't fit the narrative, "monuments to slavery" etc.
“Empires of dirt” then only focuses on britian
Hoping they will do about France and Spain.
There's more to come, I'm pretty sure.
Not China ? What a Pog
@@mofo_4_u75 no surprises there lol
Dumb comments
Go learning history
Britain was the world leading empire before ww1and ww2
Insightful as always. Thank you for this series. Please also have episodes about the colonial activities of Spain, France, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, Russia, Italy, China, US, and Japan.
And African Empires please.
Don't forget the Ottomans
We all have skeletons in our closet but unlike the British, we don't go telling the world, it's for everyone's good, so good in fact you should want it again.
African kingdoms sold all the slaves to European traders and profited hugely from it
Insightful! Moronic beyond belief!
I love how everyone one acts like Britain was the only country to conquer it was conquer or be conquered! Just because we was the best at it 😌don't hate the player, hate the game.
Don't even hate the game tbh
This presenter just hates Britain, probably cos she's a leftist student type.
Conveniently she never mentions any other brutal empires or regimes - both past and present.
So if she hates Britain so much, what the f**k is she doing here!
Yes I'm older and can see what's happening here without watching this crap, they want to destroy western civil society and make us like the Chinese slave labour!
Thats the old game. The new game today is going after the former players.
Cant wait for the Bezos episode in a few hundred years.. since we’re talking obscene wealth..
Will you be there to watch it?😀
@@amanchaudhary742 neither will you
@@9crystalobsidian167 my point exactly.😀
@@amanchaudhary742 I do not agree with your point.
@@9crystalobsidian167 I agree that you have every right to disagree.👍
Francis Drake "first man to circumnavigate the world!?" What happened to Ferdinand Magellan?
@@rec1962 my man.
Hangabra
Juan Sebastian Elcano, a Spanish mariner who took control of the expedition after Magellan’s death in 1521 and captained its lone surviving vessel, the “Victoria,” on its journey back to Spain.
Or Enrique of Malacca, a Malay slave of Ferdinand may have been the first. Enrique was enslaved in south east Asia, acquired by Ferdinand and taken to Europe. Then sailed with the fleet westward back to south east Asia, which it appears would make him the first known person to have circumnavigated Earth.
He was the first 'English' to circumnavigate the Earth. They made a mistake in the video.
Next Vice Documentary: Zing Tsjeng investigates China harvesting human organs in Uyghur concentration camps.
With firsthand account of what happens to journalists in China that dig to deep
easier to blame wh/te people for everything. That's what the youtube algorythm is thirsty for.
Her parent's came here off their own backs. If we never made an empire , we would be part of someone else's . The global economic model was based on that back then.
...and here's why white people were to blame.
Vice Already did those Docus. Go watch
Can't wait for vice's episose on silicon valley and how big tech ruined the earth
that would be interesting, agreed.
think it was already quite crap before
every country has a dark history
EXACTLY!!!! Be proud you have a brain inside your skull
We are not fundamentally different people so it will happen again
Some darker than others for sure.
@@del.see.oh.89 wayyyy darker
@@akshanshkathane642 wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy darker
Dark history got flushed down my shitter about 30mins ago.
Funny that, I'm sat on shitter has I watch this crap.
That's not a proper way to get rid of the fetus
@@stevejensen2751 taking a crap whilst watching crap, time well spent 🤣
@@NiePieerdol dark history for sure 😏😆
@@dinxsy8069 I most defiantly agree its time well spent 😁
Why do I already know that they are never going to focus on the Japanese colonization in Korea and china and their crimes that still nowadays are neglected by Japan ?🤔🤔🤔
@Rea If they were free of their past they wouldn't neglect what they committed
Becuase this video is specifically about British stately homes and their connections to slavery colonization, plus this filmes by Vice's UK team. Japanese colonization is separate issue and topic itself, Vice Asia has done videos on the topic. The British National trust isn't going to track matters in relation to Japanese colonialism, especially when they barely want to shine a light on British colonialism.
There's many documentaries highlighting Japanese colonization and their greusom treatment of people and women in neighbouring countries. Vice Asia has done a mini-doc about comfort women and their legacy in their villages across SEA countries.
It’s easier to find point a finger at someone than to acknowledge your own flaws. Just like this lady right here. I don’t know what the hell her problem is but she’s got a big issue with oppression and I have a feeling she is a Marxist.
What does Japan have to do with British pillagers and plunderers? Sounds like whataboutism to me.
Whataboutism at its best 😂
Japan payed the ultimate price for that at the world stage after the war. Now what about the UK? Hundred years of invading, hundred years of colonization. Tons of looting and left the rest of the world in chaos by creating national borders that still affects them today. The UK didnt even get a slap on the wrist for all the crimes they committed.
There is nothing so good as the truth! Enjoyed watching your video, well put over. Thanks
I didn’t like the video at first but I agree it’s important to understand where complicated and expensive buildings come from
exactly, alot of people in comments here keep saying why bring up?
idk i just wanna hear it 🤷
Before modern times, slavery; modern times, information asymmetry .
The key is, no one are absolutely clean in the “vice standard”, if we use their formula to judge anyway, even an ant can be judged for its ignorant for being an ant, and some group of human will be blamed.
heh Vice when are you going to make a video on the african on african slave trade?
literally most of their viral videos are based on africa lol
they dont have to african channels cover that extensively such as hometeam history, hearing the perspective from africans is much more valid than hearing it through vice
@@hailabbadon2840 following that same logic they don't "have to" with this subject either as many British channels cover this topic in depth. typical virtue signaling from vice that we have all come to expect
@@redstar1408 i mean they are just a product of this generation, trust me friend everything is woke media now, just accept and move on
@michelle case Silly me! I never realized there’s one rule for Vice and their b.s. and a completely different one for everyone else
These houses are so incredibly beautiful and their architectural practices must continue, even in the 21st century. Their dark history is undeniable, that's why we should honor and celebrate the slaves who built and worked in these mansions.
Ur fed up. These buildings should be destroyed.
White English people built those mansions and castles the Slaves merely indirectly produced the revenue to build such masterpieces of architecture. no slave had the mental acuity to build that. Slaves picked cotton and build their huts and thats it. Europeans built those plantation homes with the help of slaves. The homes in Britain were built with zero slave involvement only indirectly through revenue channels.
Yes. You are correct
@@crow6563 go away. There will always be people with more
Who sold the slaves in the first place ?
Great video! I'm looking forward to each new one.
The minute she said Clive family I knew who it was going to be, he's still infamous.
Tbh mate, I know you consider yourself a-bit of a historian.. but there aren’t that many famous clives in English history? Is there?
@@tomasburns6406 I don't consider myself a historian at all, it was the bane of my existence during school. But even I know about him and that speaks volume.
@@dolanpanda6851 as all good men should!
Poor chap slit his neck with a paper knife after contracting a rather unhealthy obsession with opium.. perhaps trying to forget the way he came across his great fortune.. as Dr (Samuel) Johnson wrote; "had acquired his fortune by such crimes that his consciousness of them impelled him to cut his own throat".
Deeply flawed character.. though he had a few admirable qualities.
@@tomasburns6406 ahh you got the gender wrong my friend.
Wow really ? I didn't know that he killed himself, although to be fair I know litt about history of my own countrymen let alone others.
I used to work for the National Trust in one of their stately homes whose previous owners were slave owners. It would be fair to say that the NT actively sought to avoid displaying this part the property’s history to the general public. The NT didn’t need to commission an independent report to realise they were ignoring many of their properties’ inconvenient pasts, that was done for PR purposes. Those with positions of power in the organisation have always known about much of their building stocks’ connection to slavery (which in many cases paid for the construction of the houses) and could have started to interpret it to the general public decades ago, but they felt it more convenient to ignore this significant aspect of their properties’ histories. They are only now willing discuss their stately homes’ links to slavery and colonialism because it is political fashionable to do so.
This!!
Great point!
Nice info mate!
People taking advantage of current topics for financial gain, I am pretending to be shocked.
thank you
Wait til they find out about literally every civilization in history
they know about it, you dont really have a point to make
@@Smoug ohw. But i do...
1000s of points to make 🙂..
But you dont know that because you dont know anything about history
@@JuniorJuni070 Im a historian but go of i guess loser
@@Smoug precisely the sort of erudite response one would expect from a 'historian'.
@@Smoug So perhaps you can tell us why all the other instances are unimportant , as it seems current slavery is , and one type most be focused on ?
For example why do the tens of millions of slaves which were subject to the Arab slave trade , not warrant attention and respect , what is it about their suffering that makes them unworthy?
Who abolished the global slave trade? Was it France, China, Saudi Arabia?
They were forced to do so tho.
Damn why are you so sensitive. There’s nothing wrong with addressing history, the positives and negatives. They didn’t have a duty to add at the end of this video ”oh by the way Britain ended up abolishing slavery in 1807.”
Who formulated the global slave trade? Was it France, China, Saudi Arabia?
@@aaseelanp3851 No it was an African Empire. They traded captured slaves, from military conflicts, to the Portuguese for horses in order to wage war against other African nations! This was after centuries of doing the same with the Arab nations. They turned to the Portuguese because the Arabs, after taking up Islam as a religion, began refusing to buy muslim slaves. Ouch.
The Zanj Rebellion (AD 869-883) was a major black-slave revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate. Begun near the city of Basra in present-day southern Iraq and led by one Ali ibn Muhammad, the insurrection involved enslaved Bantu-speaking people (Zanj) who had originally been captured from the coast of East Africa and transported to the Middle East, principally to drain the region's salt marshes. The landowners subjected the Zanj, who generally spoke no Arabic, to heavy slave labour and provided them with only minimal subsistence. The rebellion grew to involve slaves and freemen, from several regions of the Caliphate, and claimed tens of thousands of lives before it was finally defeated.
Well glad I got to know about this
Its was the 1700's who wasnt apart of the slave trade.
Faxxxx
Alot of people that had a heart
@@TreeCity43 💯
That's not a defence or argument. Go and think some more.
@@finngrant234 its not meant to be a defense or argument...
Excellent capsule, more on this please! Country houses are bittersweet indeed... I love the architecture, but we need to know more about they history
No doubt there are links to some houses but a lot were built during the industrial revolution, coal, iron and the mills. Wrong to suggest all houses have a murky past.
The past must make us better and not bitter
Yes 🙌 yes 👏 yes 👍
History is Bitter , Accept it , Remember it.
So that you don't repeat the Mistake.
Especially our own, not the one on some exotic continent.
Exactly like my brother @MG stated! What about the "group" who were enslaved and are still oppressed til this very day who have had not only their cultures stolen but their history stripped from them and hidden for decades if not the last few centuries?
Everyone else's past has been recognized and repaid in tangibles from time and time again except for that "group" whose descendents are still dealing with the same tyranny that they had to deal with?
Until that is recognize and resources are distributed officially to say "group" then miss me with that "learning from your past" bs! #B1 #FBA1 #CutTheCheck
Easy to say when you were on the befitting side in the past.
People didnt know slavery was an important part of EVERY economy where it is legal? I was expecting some substance but instead all I got what 'when slavery was allowed people used slaves'...ok thanks
Seems to also be a good investment.
@HGB 1 clearly not as she is just stating British people
@@user-gd7dc3om2l Well you have to start somewhere to get people to talk and think!
@@user-gd7dc3om2l what was the point of your comment? do you expect vice to cover every single atrocity committed by every country in the world? funny how you think you’re being impartial but you just come across as a colonial apologist lmao. may my colonised ancestors haunt you at night.
@@user-gd7dc3om2l maybe if you didn’t try to make wypipo sound like victims who have been vilinised by historians or the media, I wouldn’t have reacted that way. vice has been critical of non-European cultures in other videos too, so idk what you’re smoking lmao
How is this any different from the behavior of every other nation since time began? Every nation has a dark past.
They’re not saying they’re any different from any other nation, they’re just simply highlighting this nation because they were one of the biggest players in colonialism. There was a saying “The sun never sets on the British Empire” because there were that many British colonies.
Absolutely no different than any other
because it's fashionable to blame whi|te cultures for everything. UA-cam algorithm is thirsty for that type of content. focusing on any non-wh|te culture is racist apparently.
Love how vice thinks they are cracking some huge story 🤦♂️
listen you'd be surprised at the amount of resistance this narrative still gets
Vice clearly cannot get over slavery
The maintenance costs for these homes today are INSANE!!
Awesome places to visit in the summer though, Whitworth Hall is amazing to feed the deers with my daughter 👌🏼
Great assets of the NT. Wonder how much it benefits the UK for tourism.
Yeah I'm sure that is the important premise of this video the journalist is trying to protect. Smh
To give an example: Chatsworth House required £16.1 million to run for the “year” (in 2018).
This video brings up a great point often time are most celebrated buildings where funded or built off the backs of human suffering. I think they should absolutely do more videos on this but especially do it on modern buildings. A lot of those modern mega structures have been built off or funded by slave labor or people who have worked immensely inhumane conditions. This problem isn't limited to the English country house or the past what's happening before our very eyes
Don’t you love how they focus on things we mostly know, but don’t do as much coverage on the things happening right now, like China and their MODERN atrocities or the modern slave trade.
you're watching a series about HISTORY and complaining that it's discussing....history
China is itself oppressed from a Century.
they already do. And people are still proud of British empire so obviously they don't know enough about it
@@Splendidjosh Amy point is that they are doing one nation. When the title is “Empires of Dirt” like Spain and Belgium were far worse yet they talk about one nation
@@jebbo-c1l As a person who’s ancestry has been oppressed by the British I understand that they were a brutal empire, but I am not saying we should not celebrate all of that history, they were one of the better ones out of the bunch (yes they were terrible but compared to others they were better). I don’t have a problem with people singing Rule Britannia or being proud of the British Empire (on certain things). They were the ones who abolished slavery and sent a whole fleet to help stop the slave trade and gave them money which they only were able to pay off until 2013. They ended the widow burning in India, and were really pretty relaxed to what religion you practiced.
HoW MucH oF TheM?
The ANsWeR iS a lOt
Lol right thanks for clearing that up.
English Nobles to other English Nobles in the medieval times:
*"Nice back. Mind if I stab it!?*
Chinese people living in the UK in 2020*
I absolutely love your truthful documentaries.
You are joking, right?
Acknowledging the past is important.
For all nations though, not exclusively this country.
@@madcyclist58 True.
Do one on Hogwarts
Omg lmfao
Built and maintained by elf slavery
@@1rjona damn really ?
🤣🤣🤣
she got some bad issues with uk
And we keep importing these people
@@neg8098 not for long once we get rid of the eu laws we can control our borders
@@bigballssteve6797 it's too late, Britain is lost.
@@neg8098 no its not 😐
@@bigballssteve6797 you're already infiltrated.
Could you make a season on Spain and France?
Is that before or after they make one on ANY Asian , Africa or Arab country covering the same subject, which will come after a common farm yard animal as learned how to fly ?
British were the best. Not in vain they succeeded Spain as a super power. Americans took the baton after and again, were masters of enslavement and other dirty tricks. Hell, they still are. So no, Britain deserves the first place by far. Congratz.
Your effort to show the true realities of britain's dark colonial past is commendable! Keep it up
I hope you are not benefitting from the generosity this country offers to immigrants. That would be hypocritical, would it not.
Modern slavery is still happening as we SPEAK!!
They'd rather talk about slavery from hudnreds of years ago as its the only slavery they can pin on white people.
@@extremistcontent1337 Vice does a lot on modern forms of slavery too.
We can thank Obama for letting that happen in North Africa.
modern slavery is money and we are slaves to debt
@@benjaamin8 We can thank Lord Rothschild for printing useless paper money and for letting everyone be enslaved by debt.
Notice that everyone who says we need to move on doesn't have african ancestry
"You need to move on" - An African
@@dex4216 hey there African, you know who Mana Musa is? Before you look him up you don’t! educate yourself on your “people”. African countries and ethnic groups have hated each other and fought with each other even before imperialism reached them
Vice, do Canada’s peasant farming policy. That juicy part of Canada is almost forgotten and heavily obscured. The Native Americans were initially more successful at farming than the newly arrived immigrant farmers. The immigrants complained loudly and lobbied to have the natives cut out of the farming market. The led to poverty and the effects are still seen today, remnants of the peasant farming policy remained in the Indian act as late as 1995.
Thanks for posting this. I'm Canadian and have never heard of this... I'm getting Lost Harvests by Sarah Carter from my local library to learn more
That is a great and informative read!
I'm British I had no idea about this but at the same time I have to think your incredible nieve to not think they were involved in slavery. But I really don't think it makes any difference.
I understand that, through our modern values, the past seems grotesque. But the seedy undertones of detest which we place on that past seem a bit disingenuous. We all live in, and have always lived in, our current understanding of the world around us. And, as many of my history professors have portrayed, it is deceitful to deal judgment on the past using modern ideas, feelings, and interpretations. This however, does not mean that we approve of the past and wish to repeat it. Merely, that we understand the past within the correct context and do not blame those therein. Remember Terence, “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.” “I am human, I think nothing human alien to me.” Meaning we all have the same capacity for good or evil regardless of our context and who we are. Maya Angelou has a good breakdown of this.
Sounds like a weak pretext to justify slavery.
Even on the standards of late XIX, this is just awful.
Right now there are even people who think wage slaving is their right.
that only works in situations where the knowledge wasn't there, eg tobacco. but it's human nature to feel when people are being mistreated and this would be considered wrong by those who weren't involved and witnessed it, the same shock we feel when we hear of pharmaceutical companies like when they found pills tainted with hiv they sold them in south america rather than destroying them, but it goes unpunished for reasons that are a post on its own, it's not a past or present thing
@@OrochiCr wait 200 years and you’ll be classified as barbaric tyrant.
@@OrochiCr Right now, TODAY, there are people in China, the ME, Africa, South America still using slaves, but you'd rather have digs at white Britons for "MuH ColOnIAlISM". 🤣
Kenyan woman Mary Kibwana who had gone to Jordan to find domestic work so she could send money back home to her children - had been left covered in 47 per cent of burns after she was attacked by her employer. The mother-of-four who was burned and beaten by her boss then sent home to die is just one victim of modern slavery in the Middle East.~
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Even today there are still open slave markets in Libya where Africans are bought and sold by Arabs~
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Also recently a pregnant African woman was denied entry into a hospital in China and Africans living in China were evicted from their rented flats due to unfounded claims that Africans are carrying Coronavirus
But... but muh white guilt!
Good video and I liked her conclusion at the end.
Next let's do a show about how north African kingdoms got sticking rich doing exactly the same thing.
WOW, 21 dislikes on a minute old video. Nice.
thats trolls for ya
Agreed
@@DAlexKablack
Open minded of education pushes. Fooill.
I'm not even European but the show feels very biased and I dislike it.
@Dont Matter Well said
It’s Kate from TLC’s Extreme Cheapskates!!!!
Why don't people like this? I'm just curious about it because I don't like it myself, but I don't know why I don't like it.
She looks just like her!!!
@@argo2993 because its not a real British person presenting. Thats why I personally don’t like it anyway.
I was thinking the exact same thing bruh they twins
@@natashaferran Makes sense
Please do an episode about Dark history of Sochi Olympic site
Nice series
Just when u think she's done she say "but wait there's more"...
I wish she would just shut up
@@FulhamboyH Why? Does it hurt learning your history?
@@GrigRP we already know this. It's like 5,000th attempt to shame people for something that was done by other people hundreds of years ago. It gets boring after a while ( obviously not to people like you)
@@jonbrown853 who's we? If you already knew it then you didn't have to watch it lol.
If you aren't responsible for your ancestors' crime then why are you proud of their achievements?
@@GrigRP being proud of your ancestors achievements is just as stupid as feeling quilty for their crimes ya noob.
"Most of these buildings were built off the back of Enslaved people" I can't wait until she finds out about the Pyramids.
It's generally agreed that the Pyramids were built by free skilled labourers who were paid or were working as a form of tax so this is a very poor criticism.
@@user-gd7dc3om2l No, we're going to focus on Europe right now because we are Westerners and the slave trade, as it pertains to Europe and the Americas, has had a much bigger impact on Western Civilization than, say, the price of tea in China. If a thoughtful and truthful review of the history Western Civilization offends you, log out.
@@user-gd7dc3om2l if you’re so worried about slavery in Africa or Asia not getting coverage, how about you go make your own video about it? 👍
@@mjstecyk Yeah right lol. How did they lift stones that weighted tonnes that high. It's generally agreed that your type of statement is backward thinking. The ancients were more advanced and Graham Hancock proved it and that's a fact
the GRAND PYRAMID was NOT built by slaves. an intelligent alien race built them hundreds of thousands of years ago to teach an evolving mankind how to build great space ships to travel the universe.
love this series! - however i find it so weird that no one else talks about it
Their super yachts are pretty nice too...
The rest of us have to make do with much smaller used yachts....
but the view is still good.
How about reporting on something occurring today instead of open history that western society doesn’t try to hide?
Why shouldn't people talk about historical topics? It's a whole academic field for a reason.
Why shouldn't people talk about historical topics? It's a whole academic field for a reason.
so triggered that you're reminded of your past lol
@@deepstariaenigmatica2601 its not current british people's past. THEY didn't do this. so its understandable why they're sick to death of having it shoved in their face like its their fault
@@sevvy11 well, common sense does exist. This is video talking about stuff from the past. It's obvious they didn't do this. Or maybe, they're too angry to realise that.
there is a dark history behind every single mansion on this earth
True
Behind or underneath?
Bet you trolls wouldn't pander to blatant whataboutism if this was video about how africa is bad and poor!!...this is exactly what soviets did when they were criticised for their humanitarian crisis days in the cold war by saying "bUt u dId sLaVeRy"
All rich are not bad people
@@middle-classentrepreneur2949 Agreed!!!
Cool video. Please grade the SLOG footage more though! Looks like it straight out of camera!
Thank for sharing!!!
Wasn't Africa built in slavery then too?
U axin' 2 many questions.
No Africa is one of the country’s people stole humans from to be slaves.
@@thibomeurkens2296 They were sold, not taken, sold by African kings because the majority of them were already slaves. Slavery started in Africa and Africa is the continent that kept it longer. In Senegal before colonization 1 out of 3 human beings were slaves.
@@ocsecnarfnabetse5971 Lol, sure, do you know that before, Africa used to be called the land of cheap slaves due to the fact that the offer of slaves was so huge, all those African kings didn't know what to do with those guys, when i was a child my grandma used to tell me that before there was an European king who didn't hesitate to cross the atlantic to help some of those African kings and their slaves, it is an old legend, she forgot the name of this king, but i believe it's true.
1:55 - What? Drake wasnt the first to circumnavigate the globe. Its was Magellans crew. Get your facts right. If you cant get that right how can I know the rest of this is accurate?
Your comment should say “Magellan’s”. If you can’t get that right how can I know the rest of this is accurate?
@@pushkarshirahatti4068 Tf Pushkar, it's a simple correction and you're too stupid to even bring it up, he's more correct than politics in your country
@@portraitofablueavatar114 Tf Carlys, it's a simple correction and you're too stupid to even bring it up, he's more correct than politics in your own country
@@pushkarshirahatti4068 who the hell is carlys, the hell are smoking Pushkar, don't believe in facts and blame on others for your own fault. Sounds like an imbecile
@@portraitofablueavatar114 Chill bro it's not that deep
Interesting how journalists never ever look closely at those who sold their very own people into slavery.
The buyer is always under examination, but for some inexplicable reason, the sellers from various countries always get a free pass.
There is an error in this video: the pirate Francis Drake was not the first man to circumnavigate the world. It was the Spanish sailor Sebastián el Cano, along with 17 other sailors at the service of the Hispanic Monarchy, 58 years before the English pirate.
Nothing unusual and strange... same things with slaves building the temples,castles and homes for the aristocrats was usual in every country in the world since beginning of time...India,China,Russia,Ottoman Empire,Arab caliphate,Greece,Persia,Egypt,Roman empire,Japan and so on...
Yet it’s been made only the English and Americans responsibility to a knee. No one should take a knee for there history
Vice don’t mean to say that only Britain did it. They want to show that even the beautiful English castles have dark history. Because many people don’t know about the history. No racism, just facts
@@dingydan187 true, but thry said it like that, and most of historically unedicated and ignorant people would understand it on thr way that i've wrote it, and that was exactly their plan
The good old days ! Wonder will you do a video on crimes of China over the years
So brits = Chinese , standards have fallen mate
@@rawat2608 if it was not for the English these places would still be throwing spears at each other . We brought the third world standards . Which has made India a strong economy in the long run even with a space and nuclear programme ! So her trying to lay on how we should all be feeling guilty for history I rebuff . China has much worse atrocities to date
@@mikeymoo9634 lol you're such a virgin hahahah
"whatabout whatabout whatabout whatabout!!!1!" Stop bleating, and make your own video, baby.
@@jawjuk libtard
Can someone tell me the background song from the beginning of the video...thank you very much!
Mozart's requiem?
@@brandonthai5126 thank you
Is anyone surprised? I cannot think of one old, beautiful building that was build ethically and not build either by slaves or funded by slaves.
some people win and some people lose...this is human nature...people only make this a big deal because lately (past 5 hundred years) it seams blacks have had a hard time
@@Jlitt-yw2zm Black people and native peoples
@@randomuploadsism what about natives.. they lost the war for this country...thats life and also i am part native america
dam this lady is so but hurt because people had money and power
oh, so that's how you drag out one sentence to 6 minutes 🙈
The National trust needs to list every home/university and palaces that was built with the profits of the slave trade.......period...
Most of the value of these properties is in the land. Without heritage protection most would be demolished. They would not be standing today without enormous maintenance and restoration funded by means collected in the last 100 years. Much of the value “linked” to slavery is depreciated.
Talk about beating a dead horse. Stuck in the past because it suits them well.
It's like killing your father then telling you to forget about it why are you stuck in the past
@@gazaperspective2536 You were a slave of the UK? How about someone you know?
@@pacoo3712 there are people alive in the US today who’s grandparents were slaves... this was not that long ago
@@pacoo3712 they destroyed my ancestors way of life, and turned the homeland into an agricultural colony. They took all the trees. A million people starved to death while grain and livestock were exported to England. That kind of trauma is heritable.
@@pacoo3712 Our ancestors suffered from your country's evil deeds and for centuries it has affected us adversely. You'd be surprised on the amount of blood of the innocent victims your country got on it's hands.
Next: do the same but for India, China, and Africa. (Will never happen because it doesnt serve a communist cause in the west).
Bro you beat me to it
India?
Communist cause xD I'm guessing you're a 12 year old yank
Sure, sure sir, everything Is communism
they already did a viral video on the persecution of uighurs in china and they also make consistent videos on indian issues 🙄
Thanks for informative video on British history. The older generation in Britain are very sensitive to hearing the truth about slavery and how much we profited. But their feelings must take second place to educating younger Brits so that one day we make amends for these past atrocities and treat all people equally
This isn’t new knowledge?? Clearly you aren’t that versed in English history if you’re just now learning about it.
I don’t think the older generation have an issue with their history at all..
I think it’s more we don’t go to these places to have every dark part of our history constantly rammed down our throat.
Focusing on just the bad is a terrible national mindset. we need balance.
You know that slavery still exists and that G.Britain abolished slavery 200 years ago? Do you know that 10% of North Koreas people are slaves. Do you know that 75% of Indias slaves are women?
India is home to the largest number of slaves globally, with 8 million, followed by China (3.86 million), Pakistan (3.19 million), North Korea (2.64 million), Nigeria (1.39 million), Iran (1.29 million), Indonesia (1.22 million), Democratic Republic of the Congo (1 million), Russia (794,000) and the Philippines (784,000).
@@erikperik1000 We're talking about Britain love
@@azde4042 Yes. I say Britain's slavery isn't really news. Are primary schools in England teaching about slavery? In my school (not britan) in the eighties, they did. News for a lot of people would be the number of slaves in many countries today and how we can use England and other countries as an example of how an economy can grow without slaves.
@@erikperik1000 This series or whatever you wanna call isn't a news show, it's about the effects that colonialism and slavery still have today and you and many other people like to say that we learned about slavery in school but we learned of it as if it ended forever and doesn't have an effect on how people of color are treated nowadays when that simply isn't true.
The houses are still incredible despite their history. I’d love to live in one.
As a Filipino, I'm also interested about the colonialism of Spain and USA.
And still you are using a white woman's face as a profile picture 😂😂😂
@@christ1583 USA doesn't mean white. That woman's face could be from Europe.
@@christ1583 That's true, because I like Deborah Ann Woll. :D
What she said at the very end holds true for lots of physical legacies of a brutal past, including Confederate statues in the US. They can only remain in place if their display is accompanied by context, education and honest remembrance. There is a (long!) word in the German language that translates as "coming to terms with ones [collective] past".
germany was forced to reckon with their past
you guys lost the war beyond belief
you guys got the she kikd out of you by lierally three superpowers - USSR, USA and the UK
come on dude.
Look upon my works, ye mighty and despair. Nothing besides remains. Round the decay. Of that Collosal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sand stretch far away.
Still beautiful houses
That castle was on the last Transformers Movie 🎥💯
Other on X-men and national treasure too...
Good eye
former rest~house of #Popeye
Why she don't speak of the Asian empire?
Because that doesnt help to demonize white people
The Empire of Japan (1868-1947), Imperial China (221BCE-1911CE), etc.
Because maybe she’s British? And topic is on Britain?
@@jordiblu2131 Not to offend anyone, but she looks Asian...
Because she's British... this has nothing to do with race
What’s the melody in the beginning?
Vast fortunes have always been built on the exploitation, of the powerless whether they were slaves, toiling on the plantations or grossly underpaid wage slaves, working in cotton mills, coal mines, farming, etc. We used to send five-year-old children down mines and up chimneys for god's sake, but that was a different time, and attitudes have changed beyond recognition, so why do we judge past generations by today's standards? It's time we stopped looking back in anger and accept that we can't change the past , but we can shape the future, and try to make the world a better place, for all humanity. Isn't that enough, instead of this endless retrospection?
Because it's weaponised. In order to sweep away pre-existing peoples/cultures/heritage, it has to be denigrated and undermined (from within). A good portion of the "yoof" of today are so averagely educated they believe everything and anything they're told, but not in a balanced way, but in a "white people bad/black people good, British bad/all NaTIvEs good" - it's quite transparent.
Can we do next: how China has become the second economic power from stilling?
She doesn't even talk about the Chinese occupation of Tibet! China committed horrific crimes to occupy Tibet. She first needs to talk about that before she starts talking about past European empires. And the Chinese occupation of Tibet is present stuff!
@Big Mike It is time Western media talk about the dark present of China!!!
1: China doesn't like criticism 2: She is probably Chinese, she wouldn't dare criticize her own country.
@@kamanashiskar9203 Shes Singaporean... Oh if u wanna do the ethnicity thing, then consider the fact that there is no such thing as americans or australians, because those r all scottish, english, irish etc...
@@benjaamin8 Well she doesn't live in China, does she? So she doesn't have to fear the CCP. So she is free to criticize China.
this show needs to grow a pair so they can talk about anyone but british i mean the british did some bad stuff but how you talk about the dutch or the french or the spanish or the portuguese
You do realise that the British Empire was the biggest and therefore it's history is worthy examining, right? What's your problem with that?
Because that would be against their agenda.
Oh god here we go. They’ll start knocking these down next alike the statues 😂😂😂😂
Actually the first person to circumnavigate the world is Enrique of Malacca, a malay slave used by Magellan as his interpreter during his voyage in Southeast Asia. And yes he is Asian specifically from the island of Sumatra, Indonesia.
Where do they dig up that sort of 'reporters' from? Damn
Rather see the house than hear the history
This is so rediculous. Its like saying the sun is hot or the grass is green, we know! The slave trade was one of many horrific ways these estates were maintained. Obviously they should acknowledge contributions from slavery, but they also need to cover hundreds of years of good and bad history that actually occurred in these properties.
@ all of you saying that slavery exists ik modern times
Yes, it does. And this is why it's important to keep remembering history, so that ppl actually wake and see what's happening.
Talking about our history is VERY necessary. Thank you Vice.
Shouldn’t we talk about who,what, where modern slavery that is happening now rather than why a house is the symbol of oppression. It’s just a waste of resources we already know Britain was built on slavery it’s common knowledge.
@@kawayanldn9324 YOU know that, not british citizens. And no, unless ppl know how much of an impact it had in the past, they can't really understand how much it's doing now.
@@user-aditi Slavery is common knowledge you study it in GCSE’s. It’s not helping anyone knowing that a house is funded by slavery abroad because that same house you’re talking about is irrelevant to modern society problem. You might as well say religion will solve modern day issues. We don’t need anymore outdate information that you can find on google or revisit your GCSE history.
The reason why the same building is standing today is the reason why pyramid is standing today. It’s simply the heritage of humankind. No one is crying about how the pyramid is built by slaves we don’t see it as the symbol of oppression but simply admire the architecture and the labour of mankind.
Yeah but she's basically saying this WAS bad instead of looking now saying this IS bad