Nigel Biggar's Blog, page 35

RT by @NigelBiggar: “Empire has been a fact of life from ancient times. The people of Mesopotamia, Arabs, Chinese, Comanche, and Zulus, and lots of other non-white people have all done empire and colonialism. Why focus on the Europeans and Brits?”https:/

“Empire has been a fact of life from ancient times. The people of Mesopotamia, Arabs, Chinese, Comanche, and Zulus, and lots of other non-white people have all done empire and colonialism. Why focus on the Europeans and Brits?”

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RT by @NigelBiggar: “The number of people involved in investing in the slave trade and making profit – we’re talking about a small minority of British citizens. And the British state itself was not involved directly; it was all private enterprise.” No cas

“The number of people involved in investing in the slave trade and making profit – we’re talking about a small minority of British citizens. And the British state itself was not involved directly; it was all private enterprise.” No case for reparations.

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RT by @NigelBiggar: Yes I’m aware of this I felt for him when fellow academic Priyamvada Gopal was gunning for him I’m so glad to see that he has survived this onslaught and I’m especially pleased to see he is involved political initiative with the ta

Yes I’m aware of this

I felt for him when fellow academic Priyamvada Gopal was gunning for him

I’m so glad to see that he has survived this onslaught and I’m especially pleased to see he is involved political initiative with the talented @DavidGHFrost and @Jacob_Rees_Mogg

RT by @NigelBiggar: Gareth there is a powerful left wing movement in UK Universities to destroy our self image in Britain. Reaf Nigel Biggar’s best seller a balanced history of our history ‘Colonialism A Fair Reckoning’. Read reviews on Amazon.

Gareth there is a powerful left wing movement in UK Universities to destroy our self image in Britain. Reaf Nigel Biggar’s best seller a balanced history of our history ‘Colonialism A Fair Reckoning’. Read reviews on Amazon.

RT by @NigelBiggar: I highly recommend you read the Amazon reviews for Nigel Biggar’s new best seller book ‘Colonialism…A Fair Reckoning’. It’s an excellent read from an Emeritus Professor Oxford and a balanced history of Britain’s Empire and Colonialis

I highly recommend you read the Amazon reviews for Nigel Biggar’s new best seller book ‘Colonialism…A Fair Reckoning’. It’s an excellent read from an Emeritus Professor Oxford and a balanced history of Britain’s Empire and Colonialism.

RT by @NigelBiggar: Thanks Nigel. Yes Europeans came centuries late to their established trade. But I have yet to see or hear any acknowledgement from BLM reparation movement that their own African brothers were made wealthy from this sale of their ances

Thanks Nigel. Yes Europeans came centuries late to their established trade. But I have yet to see or hear any acknowledgement from BLM reparation movement that their own African brothers were made wealthy from this sale of their ancestors. The evidence is plentiful.

RT by @NigelBiggar: It is for certain that no European traders would have been either willing or able to venture anywhere near dense interior of West Africa. Why should they, why indeed would they - when those enslaved were nanded to them at the Ports for

It is for certain that no European traders would have been either willing or able to venture anywhere near dense interior of West Africa. Why should they, why indeed would they - when those enslaved were nanded to them at the Ports for sale.

Presumably not. But Africans had been selling slaves to Romans and Arabs before Europeans opened up a different market.

Presumably not. But Africans had been selling slaves to Romans and Arabs before Europeans opened up a different market.

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RT by @NigelBiggar: Pleasure speaking with @NigelBiggar for today's interview with @DisruptionBank. "In the roughly fifty-year period from 1816-67, Britain spent as much suppressing the transatlantic slave trade as they had earned in the fifty years before

Pleasure speaking with @NigelBiggar for today's interview with @DisruptionBank. "In the roughly fifty-year period from 1816-67, Britain spent as much suppressing the transatlantic slave trade as they had earned in the fifty years before abolition.”

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