I mean, it’s a few early industrialists and land owners we are talking about really, isn’t it?
The average Welsh person had fuck all to do with slave ownership. The average Welsh relationship to power is around 2000 years of being shat on by empires, royals, the state and governments.
Great to see stories like this coming to the stage.
I saw a Scottish historian talking about the same sort of themes for Scotland years ago, and he spoke at length about how the nations cultural narrative of being oppressed by the English often leads people to minimize the nations role in Empire by projecting it on the English, even if there were key Scottish players in the trade.
Always important to internalize that even if your view of your nation is one of solidarity under oppression, it doesn’t mean that the nation’s leaders didn’t benefit from or participate in oppression and colonialism themselves.
In Wales most the ‘slaves’ where natives, Truck Wages/Mines/farming/beatings for talking Welsh etc~
More nonsense.
In case the conquests by the English or the recent beating handing out in the rugby was not enough punishment for the Welsh!
Sounds like early cultural bridges to press guilt-trip popular psychology in preparation for mass immigration policy into Wales?
I could be wrong, but the conjecture does present itself given the above absurd timing. Ireland is already in Phase 2 for comparison.
Anyone who thinks Wales is innocent in slavery is crazy. Bristol was the capital of the Atlantic slave trade, I’m willing to bet quite a few Welsh people made their way over the Severn to make a living too.
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I mean, it’s a few early industrialists and land owners we are talking about really, isn’t it?
The average Welsh person had fuck all to do with slave ownership. The average Welsh relationship to power is around 2000 years of being shat on by empires, royals, the state and governments.
Great to see stories like this coming to the stage.
I saw a Scottish historian talking about the same sort of themes for Scotland years ago, and he spoke at length about how the nations cultural narrative of being oppressed by the English often leads people to minimize the nations role in Empire by projecting it on the English, even if there were key Scottish players in the trade.
Always important to internalize that even if your view of your nation is one of solidarity under oppression, it doesn’t mean that the nation’s leaders didn’t benefit from or participate in oppression and colonialism themselves.
In Wales most the ‘slaves’ where natives, Truck Wages/Mines/farming/beatings for talking Welsh etc~
More nonsense.
In case the conquests by the English or the recent beating handing out in the rugby was not enough punishment for the Welsh!
Sounds like early cultural bridges to press guilt-trip popular psychology in preparation for mass immigration policy into Wales?
I could be wrong, but the conjecture does present itself given the above absurd timing. Ireland is already in Phase 2 for comparison.
Anyone who thinks Wales is innocent in slavery is crazy. Bristol was the capital of the Atlantic slave trade, I’m willing to bet quite a few Welsh people made their way over the Severn to make a living too.
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