Well researched and produced summary of Cobbett’s empathy for the poor, his energetic advocacy on their behalf, and the weaker aspects of his personality.
You should be proud. He wrote to hypocrite Wilberforce to tear him off a strip for not speaking up for the white slaves here. Slaves in all but name. The channel Fact Feast gives some thorough accounts even if he only covers the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The truth is that the bottom had fallen out of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, with people breeding their own and then willing indenture as well as sent under sentence for so little as stealing a sawdust filled 'bread' roll. "Who brought the slaves to America" jah truth and "we thought they were white" Dontell Jackson (not the sportsman) explains who ran it. Unfortunately, the authors didn't know about the 6 X more white slaves to N America than black slaves. From tiny children aged 4 up (cotton picking height) kidnapped from coastal France, Britain and most of all from Ireland at least since the time of James I. The first slaves to Jamaica were 8/9 year old Irish children, who were there a couple of months before any black slaves were taken there. Because they hadn't paid for the white slaves, whites were sold so cheaply they were considered disposable, unlike usually teen and adult blacks who were stronger and could do more, so cost more and were better treated so they would say healthy for longer. There were black and Arab seamen on those slave ships. When the bottom fell out of the market, those running the Transatlantic Slave Trade realised a ploy to still make money. They had their relatives in (mis)government abolish the trade and give compensation to the owners here, including the ship and auction owners, for the loss of their human property. Of course they inflated the figures. Then they had their politician relatives borrow the money for compensation from their other relatives and family members in banking. Borrowed at interest in the name of the public. In 2015 their descendants put up a full page advertisement in a national daily newspaper with the words "Congratulations Britain! You have paid off the interest of the loan for compensation for the slave trade". Obviously it was meant nastily and it gave the false impression that the compensation was to black slaves (they don't like acknowledging they enslaved Whites because then they can't blame us if too many people know). Remember the "compensation" was to the owners and traders, not even to one of their black victims. Apparently, they have made more profit from that fraud than in all the hundreds of years of their slave trading. After such success they realised that compensation/reparations could be another ongoing business model to have misgovernments borrow from them at interest in the name of the public, ensuring poverty or near poverty for most people forever. Thus extremely cheap labour. Unending debt to them - until enough of us say "No!" and disempower them and take black their ill gotten gains to place the wealth back into the economy. Btw, there were black and native American slave owners who were also extremely cruel. The Native Americans were already enslaving each other when Europeans arrived in N America. The channel Unworthy History is interesting about the tribal behaviour. Some of the facts about white slavery are on the records of some port towns such as Bristol and Dublin, with reports about children "spirited away". Unfortunately, many in authority simply didn't care - or were complicit so didn't register the children, teens and adults as stolen by the crews of slave ships, but there are some records. Apparently more so in the auction records in the Caribbean and in America. Most blacks were taken to the Caribbean and to S America. Some escaped in S America and formed their own tribes, which is why so many African Americans believe "they were always there and are indigenous". Afro Americans, and everyone else have also been lied to so very much. I believe those such as Edward Colston in Bristol were crypto Jews. Methodist was one of the more popular denominations to pretend to be. If Sabbatean or Frankist or similar, he would have believed in balancing out evil behaviour with good deeds in order to cancel bad "Karma". The money he spent "helping the poor" was made in a terrible way and wasn't spent out of the goodness of his heart. Apparently those covert sinister dark occultists also believe they can reincarnate into the same bloodlines. This explains why they have carried out the same plan one step at a time to rule the world for millennia. The protocols of the elders of Zion which were passed down word of mouth long before being written. Also why they seek vengeance on countries which expelled them even two thousand years ago ("Islam is the broom we will use to sweep Europe clean" isn't a first for them. "We opened the gates to our Abrahamic brothers" being one example. Not to mention once Coptic Christian Egypt etc). I was very happy to see Colston's statue put in the water - but not for black slavery alone. Although slavery and it's trade long predates the Transatlantic one, never before nor since has any peoples done a wrongly thing to a large degree then blamed their similar looking other victims for it. Look up "We are NOT white! We are our own distinct ethnicity". How easily they are seen as whatever European type they want to pass for, when it suits them. Same as Radhanites in N Asia and Uiyghars in China, and many blacks in Africa and the Carribbean are also Jewish or Islamic but look similar to others in those countries (although the first outsiders in Africa were Islamic then Jewish who converted the natives to those re-legions). Each still look the same as others around them in their homelands. However, I have never heard of them stating they aren't Asian, Chinese or black African but are their "own distinct ethnicity". Only the white or almost white make that claim. I want to be clear I am not implying the corrupt are all Jews. As I mentioned, some particular sinister dark occultists pretend to be any religion that suits them at any time. Christianity, Jusiasm, Hinduism and other major religions are popular for them to hide behind. As well as atheist, humanis, philanthropist etc. The dark occultists seem to run the inner temples of all major religions, with those in the outer temples knowing little if anything about what is behind the veil between the two. Too much more to write here but it's worth buying antiquarian history books, preferably as close to a period you are studying. Probably not pre 1700 as reading the language becomes more difficult and time consuming. Some antiquarian history books are less expensive than new. However, full sets of volumes are expensive but it is sometimes possible to buy almost complete sets very cheaply, and perhaps find the missing ones as time goes on. Such books mean information which isn't edited for the current narratives. Also interesting are books by explorers especially to Africa. I will say though that although some tribes were very primitive and cruel, others had some very gentle religious beliefs based upon nature. Also interesting is that it's almost impossible to find antiquarian history books about Ireland. They have had their records offices burnt down more than once. It would seem there is something the parasites classes don't want the Irish to know about their ancestry and history (they share 75% DNA with the ancient Egyptian mummies tested - probably from Princess Scotia- Merataten and her entourage, as do the Swiss even if different dynasties. The rest of we Europeans share 50% DNA With the same ancient Egyptian mummies). So Irish antiquarian history books and almost unavailable to buy. I apologise this is so much, and thank you for reading if you have reached this far. Perhaps you will be able to research some of it for yourself. Best wishes and I have long thought of your forebear William as a good and great man who bravely challenged the parasite classes. I wish we had politicians like him now.
Thank you for an excellent video. I would love to see a sequel focusing on Cobbett as husband and father. A rich source would be his “Advice to Young Men”. And as the first of the comments above testifies, there is one at least among his progeny “proud to have him as a great great great grandfather!”
Ridiculously little on TH-cam about William Cobbett ……and John Wilkes ( there is more about John Wilkes Booth!!) Foundation writers and pioneers of respectively the Welfare State & Press Freedom. ☹️
This is a truly outstanding video. It is shamefully underrated but will one day be successful.
Let's hope so.
Well researched and produced summary of Cobbett’s empathy for the poor, his energetic advocacy on their behalf, and the weaker aspects of his personality.
So proud to have him as a Great Great Great Grand Father
You should be proud.
He wrote to hypocrite Wilberforce to tear him off a strip for not speaking up for the white slaves here. Slaves in all but name. The channel Fact Feast gives some thorough accounts even if he only covers the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
The truth is that the bottom had fallen out of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, with people breeding their own and then willing indenture as well as sent under sentence for so little as stealing a sawdust filled 'bread' roll.
"Who brought the slaves to America" jah truth and "we thought they were white" Dontell Jackson (not the sportsman) explains who ran it. Unfortunately, the authors didn't know about the 6 X more white slaves to N America than black slaves. From tiny children aged 4 up (cotton picking height) kidnapped from coastal France, Britain and most of all from Ireland at least since the time of James I.
The first slaves to Jamaica were 8/9 year old Irish children, who were there a couple of months before any black slaves were taken there.
Because they hadn't paid for the white slaves, whites were sold so cheaply they were considered disposable, unlike usually teen and adult blacks who were stronger and could do more, so cost more and were better treated so they would say healthy for longer.
There were black and Arab seamen on those slave ships.
When the bottom fell out of the market, those running the Transatlantic Slave Trade realised a ploy to still make money. They had their relatives in (mis)government abolish the trade and give compensation to the owners here, including the ship and auction owners, for the loss of their human property. Of course they inflated the figures. Then they had their politician relatives borrow the money for compensation from their other relatives and family members in banking. Borrowed at interest in the name of the public.
In 2015 their descendants put up a full page advertisement in a national daily newspaper with the words "Congratulations Britain! You have paid off the interest of the loan for compensation for the slave trade". Obviously it was meant nastily and it gave the false impression that the compensation was to black slaves (they don't like acknowledging they enslaved Whites because then they can't blame us if too many people know). Remember the "compensation" was to the owners and traders, not even to one of their black victims.
Apparently, they have made more profit from that fraud than in all the hundreds of years of their slave trading.
After such success they realised that compensation/reparations could be another ongoing business model to have misgovernments borrow from them at interest in the name of the public, ensuring poverty or near poverty for most people forever. Thus extremely cheap labour. Unending debt to them - until enough of us say "No!" and disempower them and take black their ill gotten gains to place the wealth back into the economy.
Btw, there were black and native American slave owners who were also extremely cruel. The Native Americans were already enslaving each other when Europeans arrived in N America. The channel Unworthy History is interesting about the tribal behaviour.
Some of the facts about white slavery are on the records of some port towns such as Bristol and Dublin, with reports about children "spirited away". Unfortunately, many in authority simply didn't care - or were complicit so didn't register the children, teens and adults as stolen by the crews of slave ships, but there are some records. Apparently more so in the auction records in the Caribbean and in America.
Most blacks were taken to the Caribbean and to S America. Some escaped in S America and formed their own tribes, which is why so many African Americans believe "they were always there and are indigenous". Afro Americans, and everyone else have also been lied to so very much.
I believe those such as Edward Colston in Bristol were crypto Jews. Methodist was one of the more popular denominations to pretend to be. If Sabbatean or Frankist or similar, he would have believed in balancing out evil behaviour with good deeds in order to cancel bad "Karma". The money he spent "helping the poor" was made in a terrible way and wasn't spent out of the goodness of his heart.
Apparently those covert sinister dark occultists also believe they can reincarnate into the same bloodlines. This explains why they have carried out the same plan one step at a time to rule the world for millennia. The protocols of the elders of Zion which were passed down word of mouth long before being written. Also why they seek vengeance on countries which expelled them even two thousand years ago ("Islam is the broom we will use to sweep Europe clean" isn't a first for them. "We opened the gates to our Abrahamic brothers" being one example. Not to mention once Coptic Christian Egypt etc).
I was very happy to see Colston's statue put in the water - but not for black slavery alone.
Although slavery and it's trade long predates the Transatlantic one, never before nor since has any peoples done a wrongly thing to a large degree then blamed their similar looking other victims for it. Look up "We are NOT white! We are our own distinct ethnicity". How easily they are seen as whatever European type they want to pass for, when it suits them. Same as Radhanites in N Asia and Uiyghars in China, and many blacks in Africa and the Carribbean are also Jewish or Islamic but look similar to others in those countries (although the first outsiders in Africa were Islamic then Jewish who converted the natives to those re-legions). Each still look the same as others around them in their homelands. However, I have never heard of them stating they aren't Asian, Chinese or black African but are their "own distinct ethnicity". Only the white or almost white make that claim.
I want to be clear I am not implying the corrupt are all Jews. As I mentioned, some particular sinister dark occultists pretend to be any religion that suits them at any time. Christianity, Jusiasm, Hinduism and other major religions are popular for them to hide behind. As well as atheist, humanis, philanthropist etc. The dark occultists seem to run the inner temples of all major religions, with those in the outer temples knowing little if anything about what is behind the veil between the two.
Too much more to write here but it's worth buying antiquarian history books, preferably as close to a period you are studying. Probably not pre 1700 as reading the language becomes more difficult and time consuming.
Some antiquarian history books are less expensive than new. However, full sets of volumes are expensive but it is sometimes possible to buy almost complete sets very cheaply, and perhaps find the missing ones as time goes on.
Such books mean information which isn't edited for the current narratives.
Also interesting are books by explorers especially to Africa. I will say though that although some tribes were very primitive and cruel, others had some very gentle religious beliefs based upon nature.
Also interesting is that it's almost impossible to find antiquarian history books about Ireland. They have had their records offices burnt down more than once. It would seem there is something the parasites classes don't want the Irish to know about their ancestry and history (they share 75% DNA with the ancient Egyptian mummies tested - probably from Princess Scotia- Merataten and her entourage, as do the Swiss even if different dynasties. The rest of we Europeans share 50% DNA With the same ancient Egyptian mummies). So Irish antiquarian history books and almost unavailable to buy.
I apologise this is so much, and thank you for reading if you have reached this far. Perhaps you will be able to research some of it for yourself.
Best wishes and I have long thought of your forebear William as a good and great man who bravely challenged the parasite classes. I wish we had politicians like him now.
You have every right to be proud of him.
So sad but very little has changed!
Thank you for an excellent video. I would love to see a sequel focusing on Cobbett as husband and father. A rich source would be his “Advice to Young Men”. And as the first of the comments above testifies, there is one at least among his progeny “proud to have him as a great great great grandfather!”
Ridiculously little on TH-cam about William Cobbett ……and John Wilkes ( there is more about John Wilkes Booth!!) Foundation writers and pioneers of respectively the Welfare State & Press Freedom. ☹️
Very good
awesome video, new channel?
Very interesting...but please turn down the violins!! Struggled to hear the commentary with that racket going on.
Agreed, BG music not BG enough :)