The Disturbing History of Tobacco

The Disturbing History of Tobacco | Empires of Dirt

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Tobacco: slaves picked it, Europe smoked it, and the Tobacco Lords of Glasgow grew filthy rich on the profits. Their legacy can be found in the street names across the ‘Merchant City’, but not a single street bears the name of the slaves that made them their fortunes.
Cruel Scottish slave traders kidnapped people from West Africa and imprisoned them on Bunce Island off the coast of Sierra Leone, dressed them in tartan and forced them to act as golf caddies.
VICE World News Host Zing Tsjeng heads to Scotland to find out who the Tobacco Lords of Glasgow were and learn more about their role at the centre of the transatlantic tobacco trade.
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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@VICE 3 жыл бұрын

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@timfenrich5328 3 жыл бұрын

Why isn’t she reporting how China is committing genocide?

@Mr_Rabbit 3 жыл бұрын

@@timfenrich5328 maybe if you find a way to link it to hating white men, she might report on it.

@antagonizerr 3 жыл бұрын

When is Vice going to tackle their relationship to the Proud Boys alt-right group? Or is that a bit too close to home?

@jasonwoods3711 3 жыл бұрын

Every country in the world was founded using slavery !! All those empires built on slavery.... Even Africa. India has to be the worse though under Muslim rule back in 15th century.

@jasonwoods3711 3 жыл бұрын

I thought when ya said look here for empires of dirt, There would be a massive list ?? But they all seam to be targeted at one little island ! Like they were dirt by themselves ... Those countries Britain took slaves from ~ like Africa... certain African families made themselves rich too !! No mention of them ?? Who were they...

@bennyrodriguez9352 3 жыл бұрын

Nobody remembers their names. Just like everyone will remember Jordan but not the kids in sweatshops making them.

@MarsKvaratskhelia 3 жыл бұрын

Spot on 👍

@julianshepherd2038 3 жыл бұрын

Ooft!

@ixis 3 жыл бұрын

^This comment^: Nike does evil and made bank off of the name of a black man. That's why I don't need to feel bad for the fact that I'm racist. Way to go, racist apologists.

@gusto8069 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

@PanzerAce760 3 жыл бұрын

True dat

@joannenugent8495 2 жыл бұрын

I come from Glasgow and we studied "The tobacco lords" at school but I don't ever recall slavery being mentioned.

@houseplant1016 Жыл бұрын

Seriously?!

@Sol-Cutta Жыл бұрын

@@houseplant1016 yes seriously.

@Sol-Cutta Жыл бұрын

They weren't used here in the United kingdom's...only over in Virginia where it was cultivated.

@610231718 2 ай бұрын

She also used the word slavery a dozen times in the first 2minutes like we get it you just wanna talk about slavery

@mdbergfeld 3 жыл бұрын

Most surprised by the fact that they were able to film in nice weather.

@kaspasuudiem 3 жыл бұрын

the bad weather everyone associates UK with is long gone, at least in the south

@garrison1915 3 жыл бұрын

Most surprised slavery is still a big deal when humans have been using slaves for manual labor since we've been around

@kevinshmuk7237 3 жыл бұрын

@@kaspasuudiem im in glasgow and it rains nearly everyday

@playoffl36ron8 3 жыл бұрын

@@garrison1915 means were growing as a species

@garrison1915 3 жыл бұрын

@@playoffl36ron8 too bad our growth is inefficient

@CrazyMonkey679 3 жыл бұрын

Please do something about the ‘Irish famine’, and how it was actually genocide not famine. Ireland had enough food to feed its starving population but yet the British continued to ship food out of Ireland. Leaving people to starve to death, people literally having nothing but grass to eat. The effects of British colonialism on Ireland is not nearly talked about enough.

@straightfacts6043 2 жыл бұрын

British and Ireland issues are well known.

@IXLDGOLD 2 жыл бұрын

@@straightfacts6043 So well known that most americans still think Ireland is part of the UK? yea, thought so. Its no where near as well known as it should be

@gobot581 Жыл бұрын

That's happened alot in Africa. They export their resource and import their own overpriced ones and force them to use that instead. If just left alone Africa is the riches continent in the world

@Luke-Emmanuel Жыл бұрын

@@straightfacts6043 not really. Not in the places that still suffer.

@RetroAP Жыл бұрын

They're white so it doesn't matter I guess

@divineeyeobserver754 3 жыл бұрын

Nothing has changed.. Still slaves.. The world smokes it The rich get richer

@lorrainepollock9554 3 жыл бұрын

No we just get it on the cheap

@punkyoliverio 3 жыл бұрын

I agree

@socialistsolidarity 3 жыл бұрын

yep, it's just (a little) humanized and it's called capitalism.

@mrcool2107 2 жыл бұрын

@@socialistsolidarity and a filthy terrorist called communism

@CarbLoaders 3 жыл бұрын

Remember kids, looking at history through the lens of today is like looking at train travel back in 1700's and being outraged by saying "they burned coal? Why didn't they just take the jumbo jet"?

@xDRAGONSHAGGERx 3 жыл бұрын

😂 Those dumbasses

@dangerislander 3 жыл бұрын

Oh but never forget 9/11 aye?

@kingofthebeast4024 3 жыл бұрын

You’re seriously defending slavery?

@jhunt5578 3 жыл бұрын

Irrational defensive anger at history incoming

@minmax5 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it was like that on the last video in this series....

@PrinceZakariyya 3 жыл бұрын

British guilt lol

@Mr_Rabbit 3 жыл бұрын

@@PrinceZakariyya Britain should be as guilty as any other country that has supported slavery at some point in history. So pretty much every country in the modern world.

@adamwyker4800 3 жыл бұрын

@@Mr_Rabbit no sir!! This doesn’t apply to non-white nations. I’m a proud colonizer/colonialist. Change my mind.

@Sault40 3 жыл бұрын

The early comments scare me

@Juanaponymous 3 жыл бұрын

This woman must be 9’8”!!

@eduardogalindo5364 3 жыл бұрын

Sign her up to the WNBA

@entertexthere1127 3 жыл бұрын

Nah, beetlejuice is 15feet tall. She short compare to beet.

@purplelanternxox6793 3 жыл бұрын

@@eduardogalindo5364 lmaoo

@goddammitboi 3 жыл бұрын

Heels?

@nealejames2243 3 жыл бұрын

4:55 looks around 4 feet 6 inches

@useyourbrain-vm8li 3 жыл бұрын

So who’s gonna tell her that Africans sold their fellow brothers to the traders?

@MichaelSandor 7 ай бұрын

Wow, there, the truth? Can’t have that.

@The-illuminoid 6 ай бұрын

Yeah we already know that

@SkeeDaGreat 6 ай бұрын

Under what circumstances? Did they have much of a choice? Irresponsible statement to make without context

@suntat511 5 ай бұрын

@@SkeeDaGreatsadly they did have a choice. They sold their brothers and the Europeans used them as slaves. Money hungry people are at fault. No matter their race.

@SkeeDaGreat 5 ай бұрын

@suntat511 yeah, ok. You conclude whatever you'd like. I highly doubt it was that simple, I know of way too much documented history proving otherwise. As you were.

@DarylSolis 3 жыл бұрын

You really can not judge what happened over 200 years ago with today's modern perspective on the topic.

@therideneverends1697 3 жыл бұрын

Yes you can. Abolitionist movements where well underway at the time, there was noone who "did not know" what they where doing was wrong, they just dident care. bad people who made money doing bad things, nothing more, simping for them aint gonna make you wealthy

@danes5143 3 жыл бұрын

@@therideneverends1697 A very small fraction of society pushed for abolitionist movements but the majority of society supported slavery. The societal norm was that slavery was okay and black people were lesser. It was normal way of life back then and slavery was happening for thousands of years before that, so no you cant judge what happened 200 years ago with todays modern perspective because people and society change and develop different views and beliefs overtime.

@jonathanjohnson9611 3 жыл бұрын

@@danes5143 Funny how you people never say this when European/British history is being glorified. So we should just ignore the history that we don’t like?

@truthseekermedia 3 жыл бұрын

Everything is for money that is already inherently worthless. It is our beliefs in the need for these things that we remain enslaved.

@brianburton6897 3 жыл бұрын

😀 were all going to die

@darkvoidb9717 3 жыл бұрын

Inherently worthless lol

@CarbLoaders 3 жыл бұрын

Look around, these people are the pioneers of their day. You say it's "inherently worthless" while many inherit the benefits of the cities, schools and churches they've build. If it wasn't for men like these, many what we now know as metropolitan areas around the world would still be grassy fields.

@nathanaeljoseph2226 3 жыл бұрын

@@CarbLoaders you think this is progress

@xDRAGONSHAGGERx 3 жыл бұрын

@@nathanaeljoseph2226 its progress, just in the wrong direction. We are incapable of managing effectively unless it's for money only it seems

@pinnedcomment8614 3 жыл бұрын

fun fact of the day - The last letter added to the English alphabet wasn't Z - it was the letter J.

@JohnDoe-zj5dj 3 жыл бұрын

Ok explain, alphabet man

@Brandon7520X 3 жыл бұрын

@@JohnDoe-zj5dj he the alphabet ambassador

@glennoconnor1130 3 жыл бұрын

Good fact. Cheers

@bingrijper 3 жыл бұрын

Could you please do a series like this in Holland about the Dutch Colonies and what they did.

@tomjones7184 2 жыл бұрын

Don’t be silly, the only empire to ever exist in her mind was the British.

@mrcool2107 2 жыл бұрын

@@tomjones7184 she is fraud . Paid by mostly chinese to spread fake news on Britian .

@studygram_ 2 жыл бұрын

@@mrcool2107 keep crying 🤧

@splash4000able 3 жыл бұрын

I mean I guess that’s the same thing you can say about Nike all the people that help build their shoes should be remembered to then

@menshevikbear176 3 жыл бұрын

@@msdaus14 their still hard working people

@dagzey 3 жыл бұрын

@anon anon ah stop haha

@emmanuelwil-jeff 3 жыл бұрын

that'd modern day slavery not past slavery idk if vice will make a mini series on that but it's to be expected if it fit's their narrative

@PaulyJayNBC 3 жыл бұрын

Bet the chick talking is wearing some crispy clean air force 1s

@PaulyJayNBC 3 жыл бұрын

@@msdaus14 the probably run for about 3 to 5 years, then they find the nearest bridge and jump

@RK-rf8rc 3 жыл бұрын

Love how the camera angles emphasise that she’s talking down to us

@nealejames2243 3 жыл бұрын

4:55 She's only 3 foot tall

@THEcamobackpack 3 жыл бұрын

You're projecting a lot about how this made you feel

@RK-rf8rc 3 жыл бұрын

@@THEcamobackpack You don’t know much about photography techniques do you? I’d suggest studying early cinema and the psychology of framing, or actually lightening up a little, before replying next time.

@Sault40 3 жыл бұрын

It's just history my dude

@sonnymp1337 3 жыл бұрын

@@Sault40 its not just history its vices history

@kaml.7341 Жыл бұрын

All her videos about the shameful past of Britain are priceless, and should be on the watch lists in all libraries around the world. 👍👍👍👍👍

@jjfr08 7 ай бұрын

😂🇬🇧lol

@shaylinmonk9208 3 жыл бұрын

Third of a century? Just say 30 years. They just trying to make it sound long as possible

@_Smarf_ 3 жыл бұрын

That's so nitpicky. 🤣😂 Of all the things to get upset about, it's not the abuses of slaves but length of time descriptors.

@soulBain25 3 жыл бұрын

@@_Smarf_ who said he was upset? Can't you comment on a video with having an emotional engagement then ? And to be fair the language they choose to use in this video is a blaming leftie tone like the uk and usa are the only people to make money from slaves, as if we invented it or something.

@_Smarf_ 3 жыл бұрын

@@soulBain25 "leftie tone" or accurate description of history through the lens of a person living in 2020. Your bias is showing. Also, whataboutism, 'other countries had slave, so it was ok that my ancestors had slaves' is the definition of a facile argument. This is a 8 minute history lesson that seems to hurt a lot of right-wingers feelings. History is brutal, not convenient.

@soulBain25 3 жыл бұрын

@@_Smarf_ 😂triggerd, your bias is showing 🤣 yes a leftie tone and you're bias is showing as it was you that jumped on a harmless comment you silly leftie. Yes every country is guilty of slavery, that is a fact you can read it in your "history books" and it the language and tone used that solely puts blame on the west where as in fact that would be historically inaccurate, so not much of a history lesson really, more an interpretation of history shown through a warped lense.

@kanavkohli794 3 жыл бұрын

@@soulBain25 and here we see a leftie in his natural habitat, getting triggered and melting like a snowflake....Nice Catch bro!!

@shifty1927 3 жыл бұрын

My county flag is just a picture of a tobacco leaf ...pretty wild, not a lot of tobacco farms left here in Southern Maryland.

@TylerBradley7 3 жыл бұрын

not alot of anything good left in maryland.

@PapaJosh111 3 жыл бұрын

The gangs are pretty good in Maryland

@TylerBradley7 3 жыл бұрын

@@PapaJosh111 true

@shifty1927 3 жыл бұрын

@@PapaJosh111 gangs? Please inform me . Idk about any gangs

@crashalarm3283 3 жыл бұрын

Your county has a flag? I don’t even know if mine does. I’ll have to google it now.

@benjaminhenry7593 3 жыл бұрын

Im waiting fot the finale to this series in which they discuss how western white people were the first ones to outlaw slavery and voluntarily free all the slaves in their territories. Saudi Arabia didn't outlaw slavery till 1962 only after being pressured by great britain

@steveymt1 3 жыл бұрын

@@snailevangelist we condone there bullshit? Wtf

@MUGENGaming 3 жыл бұрын

Outlawing slavery isn’t much of an achievement when western white people created the worst form of it; being chattel slavery.

@tariqbird8293 4 күн бұрын

Chattel slavery is a satanic practice

@talitam.8414 3 жыл бұрын

So informative and eye opening, thank you.

@GRH_Roadhouse 3 жыл бұрын

Not a lot of comments right now gonna come back later Roadhouse

@criseriksonB0121 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@WhyAlwaysMeOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

ikr

@tylerhackner9731 3 жыл бұрын

Roadhouse

@calviniscool 3 жыл бұрын

Lol shuduuuuup 😂

@deadagain5291 3 жыл бұрын

Roadhouse

@eduardogalindo5364 3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the relationship between slave and Egypt and Spanier in Latin America and Mexico.And the current slave problem in the middle.

@mrsapplez2007 3 жыл бұрын

I AGREE

@davidbridge5652 3 жыл бұрын

Wow wow wow, that doesn't fit the current narrative

@eduardogalindo5364 3 жыл бұрын

Well they're talking about rich powerful people who took advantage of slaves & it made money off of them so I don't see the difference here what I said earlier.

@blznft9513 3 жыл бұрын

Or America's for profit prison system which has people of color mostly doing harsh labour work for carrying small amounts of drugs. Modern day slavery

@eduardogalindo5364 3 жыл бұрын

@@blznft9513 That's very true very true i hope they make a episode dedicated to that.

@Jack__Reaper 3 жыл бұрын

You should go to China next and do a show on their treatment of muslims and factory conditions.

@elnorton7113 3 жыл бұрын

You learn everything from western media which justified their government invasion to middle east, Africa.

@PurplePanda1233 3 жыл бұрын

@@elnorton7113 China is invading Africa actually

@CarbLoaders 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you mention the ongoing CHINA GENOCIDE of the Uyghur muslims although I don't think they will report about that. Perhaps, vice can report on another topic which killed as many, if not more women and children. It's the guy that bom bed 7 countries and got the peace price. Hmmm.....forgot the narcist name, you know it!

@nathanaeljoseph2226 3 жыл бұрын

@@CarbLoaders is the answer correct for 500 “Obama”

@adityas136 3 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rJ1xjNyG1tixpYU.html

@gawithhoggarth 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I am researching a book on the history of tobacco and the connection with England and then Kendal, where our small factory is. Glasgow tobacco lords will form a chapter as well as the slave trade connections. It is important for history and our future that all sides are covered, the good and the bad.

@fredk6992 3 жыл бұрын

I love how she acts that wearing tartan and being a caddy was the worst part about slavery 😭

@julianshepherd2038 3 жыл бұрын

It demonstrates the Scottishness you clown

@AAR0NWE1R 3 жыл бұрын

I think she was highlighting the audacity of dressing someone up in special Tartan clothing to signify that person's owner's wealth

@Thrill_Hou 3 жыл бұрын

It was a way of de-Africanising their slaves.

@pjacobsen1000 3 жыл бұрын

It is said in the video that slave traders went into West Africa to abduct locals for slavery. But to send teams of English/Scottish people into an area they are not familiar with to abduct people seems both dangerous, complicated and ineffective. In my understanding, the traders instead told leaders of the coastal towns that they were interested in buying slaves and then let the locals do the abductions, lock the abductees up and wait for the traders to show up. This also made the locals on the coasts business partners, rather than simply bystanders. It also helped local leaders gain power through diluting enemy states of their young men/warriors. It's a bit like Rhino horns. You don't have Chinese people going into Tanzania to kill Rhinos. Instead they tell locals they're interested in buying rhino horns and let local poachers do the shooting.

@mikhelBrown 2 жыл бұрын

As appalling as it sounds, you're very right... It takes two to tango.. The British took advantage of the constant ethnic tensions between the locals and sometimes even went further to spread false rumors about opposing tribes to spark wars which resulted in more slaves in the form of POWs. Disgusting and less bright African leaders aided and abetted this monstrous crime against their fellow Black africans. That's why it's difficult to gather enough support when it comes to the trans-atlantic slave trade.

@eastcoastenergy 2 жыл бұрын

You are absolutely correct. African tribes became wealthy from selling off tribesmen they did not like for slaves to Europeans.

@yonapops8062 2 жыл бұрын

😂

@nooffence7670 2 жыл бұрын

10p percent right I'm glad you can see through this rubbish and propaganda

@nparekh79 3 жыл бұрын

British and American Tobacco manufacturers have formed some association to protect their interests in Africa too. In countries like Nigeria, you will find cigarettes and tobacco products in the smallest villages whereas it is difficult to find even basic goods like milk and milk products in such places.

@grantzax 9 ай бұрын

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.

@phantomlordNL 3 жыл бұрын

Hey it's the girl who keeps making videos about the UK!

@enissay9950 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing series. Keep it up

@mrcool2107 2 жыл бұрын

Worst

@chaunceyclark1510 2 жыл бұрын

my battery 1% me: listens to this my battery: i’ll wait

@pjacobsen1000 3 жыл бұрын

If the average lifespan of slaves in those Scottish plantations was only 7 years, that must mean that the extra labor you could squeeze out of the slaves in that timespan would have been worth more than the cost of buying new slaves. In turn, this must mean that slaves would have been relatively cheap. But in other parts of America, slave owners actively got slaves to produce children, because even with the cost of bringing them up, it was considered cheaper than buying new slaves. That seems to present a contradiction. Can anyone enlighten me on this?

@everythingallin4905 3 жыл бұрын

There is a disturbing history behind almost every product.

@sydlawson3181 3 жыл бұрын

Well we're a disturbing animal

@ehiggins360 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the history of our world is pretty traumatic.

@itheuserfirst3186 3 жыл бұрын

That's because nature is amoral. When human morals are applied to the history of existence, then everything seems traumatic. Life on earth will always be in conflict with ever shifting human morality. The further we remove ourselves from nature, the more fragile we become. There will never be a zero cost to living. The laws of physics don't allow it; yet our minds want it.

@JensiT1 3 жыл бұрын

Wait till she discovers how her clothes are made

@notme4740 3 жыл бұрын

Watching this as I smoke a cigarette

@crazy8sdrums 3 жыл бұрын

When will Vice discuss the many millions of slaves currently held in China? Can't have them jumping off the factory roof to their deaths so they built nets to catch them...those slaves.

@NLT-pm4sq 3 жыл бұрын

Shipbuilding was a much more influential trade that built Glasgow

@fkininmonth 3 жыл бұрын

And what do you think they were shipping?

@NLT-pm4sq 3 жыл бұрын

@@fkininmonth The ships they were building were for all sorts of purposes, military, freight, and barges used on rivers all over the UK. And they were selling these ships to every nation in the world.

@jonathanjohnson9611 3 жыл бұрын

@@fkininmonth Don’t mind him. He’s purposely being obtuse.

@barnibussnaples6561 2 жыл бұрын

@@fkininmonth everything. Hence the word shipping.

@jj72610 3 жыл бұрын

You’ll never see Vice mention Europeans in a positive light and you’ll never see them mention a poc negatively

@natudavis8092 3 жыл бұрын

That's because nothing positive was happening...

@jj72610 3 жыл бұрын

Natu Davis that’s why you’re typing in English on a smartphone via the internet. Wonder where all that came from

@natudavis8092 3 жыл бұрын

@@jj72610 And?...

@Panzottero 3 жыл бұрын

@@natudavis8092 sure, like the invention of cars, phones, and 90% of every technology you use today, sure, nothing positive, not the best poets of human history, the best philosophers, the best artisans, the best architects, sure, nothing good came from europe

@natudavis8092 3 жыл бұрын

@@jj72610 The smartphones come from natural resources found in the Congo and central Africa: cobalt, tin, tungsten and tantalum...But I'm sure you knew this little detail. Over 80% the world's electronics are harvested material out of central Africa. But I'm sure you knew this....

@punkyoliverio 3 жыл бұрын

This show is really interesting.

@OriolVilalta 3 жыл бұрын

not really. it kind of showcases everything wrong with vice.

@punkyoliverio 3 жыл бұрын

@@OriolVilalta yeah, many interesting things... It would be nice to have different sides, I hope they do a panel discussion... That would be interesting too.

@user-yy9rh8qy6l 3 жыл бұрын

@@OriolVilalta OOP, colonizer thief got offended

@maximuseuropa1355 3 жыл бұрын

It’s really biased and anti white

@studygram_ 2 жыл бұрын

@@maximuseuropa1355 as it should be.

@shuttles69 3 жыл бұрын

Love your vids, keep it up

@pinnedcomment8614 3 жыл бұрын

I just found out Red Sour Patch Kids are the exact same candy as Swedish Fish, just with some sour sugar sprinkled on them. What

@rafaelcastellon7013 3 жыл бұрын

No way man!

@wdsftygt 3 жыл бұрын

Do they go up you th e same way up you?

@Abel_la_Abel 3 жыл бұрын

*The FBI wants to know your location*

@valley2thebay319 3 жыл бұрын

@@Abel_la_Abel 💀

@raffaelemarre2013 3 жыл бұрын

An episode about the colonial empire of Oman Sultan in east africa no?

@raffaelemarre2013 3 жыл бұрын

@Sejr is not whataboutism, is a response to vice cherry picking

@raffaelemarre2013 3 жыл бұрын

@Sejr I find it hard for you to fail to understand what I am saying

@raffaelemarre2013 3 жыл бұрын

@Sejr beware, you're shitting out of the potty

@jbreezy6784 3 жыл бұрын

Informative

@eastcoastenergy 2 жыл бұрын

Could you please do a video like this on African tribes becoming wealthy from selling off tribesmen they did not like for slaves. Thank you in advance.

@snifey7694 3 жыл бұрын

Smoke some tobacco and then all of the sudden you became el presidente

@user-ro2nn7lt3r 3 жыл бұрын

"Empires of Dirt, a show about Europeans getting rich at the expense of everyone else" Because outside of Europe they never had an empire and not a single person ever got rich at the expense of anyone else. :D

@YarMoLight 3 жыл бұрын

Ну Монголо-татары вроде не европейцы. Хотя по описанию подходит. Только у Европы это более успешно получается

@YarMoLight 3 жыл бұрын

@ric Gikonyo can you reply again but more clearly?

@YarMoLight 3 жыл бұрын

@ric Gikonyo ok then, I guess?

@mrcool2107 2 жыл бұрын

No doubt why Singapore is a dirt

@cous516 3 жыл бұрын

These need to be longer.

@jay_volpe 3 жыл бұрын

Is it possible to get this information sourced via twitter?

@Hapkumdo 3 жыл бұрын

Did slavery not have something to do with the tobacco trade? I'm not sure, since it isn't mentioned in the video.

@kingcuan5261 3 жыл бұрын

This series should be called “guilt trip”

@dirrrrr82 3 жыл бұрын

Yea funny how factual history doesn't make me feel any guilt... naturally

@starcityrc3298 Жыл бұрын

I won't apologize for creating the Modern World

@chubbygreyhound1198 3 жыл бұрын

1:53 Interesting fact - Bunce island was named after the British Boxing pundit Steve Bunce. "Buncey" wasn't in fact born until 1962 but that's not important.

@lucaskuyl823 3 жыл бұрын

Where can i find the music used in this video?

@safeasmush 3 жыл бұрын

What do you call a man with a cat on his head? Claude

@_barncat 3 жыл бұрын

Boo

@00loudog 3 жыл бұрын

My husbands name is claude

@richduquette9874 3 жыл бұрын

You may have to spell it C-L-A-W-E-D for the KZfaq audience to get it.

@snifey7694 3 жыл бұрын

@@00loudog is he a mute?

@rzxkp7none275 3 жыл бұрын

I never knew about the Scottish. Good video. Very educational.

@willbloomx 3 жыл бұрын

The Phantom troupe music in the intro thooo

@avinaashashastry3910 3 жыл бұрын

I forgot to like so many of these videos. I don't even remember how many I watched to get here

@CaptainHaddocck 3 жыл бұрын

Must be hard being a struggling POC living in the shade and jealously of the glorious European civilisation

@sonnymp1337 3 жыл бұрын

European were the best for at least 500 years, suck it up :)

@fredk6992 3 жыл бұрын

I hope you'll name a street after the Chinese 4 year old that made your trousers

@ft2167 Жыл бұрын

wow...I didnt know about this. thanks for the History lesson

@DewyPeters96 3 жыл бұрын

The Scottish composer and solider, Tobias Hume composed the song "Tobacco" in 1605: it quite aptly illustrates how crazy people were going about it at the time. No doubt, this song helped bolster the profits of those Glasgow Tobacco Lords. Here is a link to the song: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f5iEq9qqzdyqpGg.html

@The123dannyd 3 жыл бұрын

Did the presenter learn to walk 5 minutes before this was shot?

@CarbLoaders 3 жыл бұрын

Yes she admired the great city buildings and churches before she began the verbal poop storm of a report. Amazing, she was jurnolisming all over the place!

@anonamus7404 3 жыл бұрын

Anybody else notice how much of this story just didn’t make logical sense?

@Mr_Rabbit 3 жыл бұрын

as long as she can blame white poeple it doesnt matter to her if it doesnt make sense

@anonamus7404 3 жыл бұрын

@@Mr_Rabbit agreed. It just was strange that there’s 40 million dollars of tobacco being traded and 5 years later these same merchants are 1.3 million in debt? Her explanation: tobacco was a big deal, until it wasn’t anymore? How fucking retarded do you think we are? Smfh

@fd2444 3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes the kidnapped slaves story, totally werent sold off by african kings

@sonnymp1337 3 жыл бұрын

Thought the same😂 but here are enough sheep in comment section and people are dumb they take for granted everything a "authoritian" channel says

@yungwallzy 3 жыл бұрын

Kangz* not kings

@MUGENGaming 3 жыл бұрын

Yup. African Kings from enemy kingdoms. Your point?

@kingofthebeast4024 3 жыл бұрын

Some were kidnapped, most were indentured servants who expected to be returned to their home.

@tray-oq1nj 3 жыл бұрын

Kangz

@kingk2405 3 жыл бұрын

Always amazed about people who organised themselves without that much means . They found a plant , get some slaves to pick them up , organise shipping etc...and without any real technology that could have helped communication , improved logistics etc ...no just the guy with his boat not 100% sure where he was going and 100% certain he won’t have a clue if any weather forecast ! Imagine doing that now !!! I am trying to figure out the amount of gold and precious stones that must be at the bottom of the sea ...it must be just massive .

@MrTicTics 3 жыл бұрын

Genuinely interested in all the people disliking this. The video itself is well made and historically accurate so it leaves me thinking, are they unhappy with the fact that this topic is even being discussed or something? Don't wanna be calling the dislikers racist but I can't help but think that must be the only reason they actually went so far as to hit dislike. Vice can release some bad content at times but this doesn't fall under that category.

@FrankJeeves 3 жыл бұрын

I think it's because it focuses on European. And I doubt they're going to balance it out by also discussing the African slave trade by African tribes and the African slave trade by Arabs and that's leave audiences with the impression that the only people who've ever profited off of African slaves are Europeans

@minmax5 3 жыл бұрын

Don't worry bro, the dislikers are mostly racist.

@jhunt5578 3 жыл бұрын

It's a strange thing we have in the UK where empire is not spoken about, its not even on the curriculum at school. For some reason people feel personally attacked by the facts of our history when its brought up. It's fascinating seeing the reactions. There are people in the comments posting 'two wrongs make a right fallacies' about the Arabic African slave trade as if it somehow justifies the European one. Both were bad.

@andrewjones575 3 жыл бұрын

AS with a previous Vice video by the same presenter, it says that slaves were kidnapped by Europeans. They were actually already long-enslaved by fellow Africans, who sold them to Europeans.

@andrewjones575 3 жыл бұрын

@@jhunt5578 The British Empire is taught in many UK schools.

@powerfulconfusion4817 3 жыл бұрын

im glad i kicked the habit of smoking :)

@igga5428 3 жыл бұрын

Loved this

@pasta-and-heroin 3 жыл бұрын

that opening line was FANTASTIC

@M.M0709 3 жыл бұрын

African history is more than just slavery and European colonialism. This series is just depressing. It's like these "edgy media" platforms only see Africans as the descendants of enslaved people. Africa is huge, diverse and has a rich history. When will they ever focus on something positively African?

@pangajackterhor 3 жыл бұрын

You want rider and colorful rainbows plenty of documentaries and independent mini documentaries done already. This is about the bullshit that you don't really see but might just read.. most of US and white post colonialists keep their people numb and dumb about their past.

@sharathbhushi4903 3 жыл бұрын

Keep up the good series...are always taught the wrong side of the history in our schools, as narrated by the British 😕

@joedot343 3 жыл бұрын

but you do realise this woman isn't a historian and has a very obvious idealogical bent

@jjfr08 7 ай бұрын

🇬🇧🇬🇧

@khaya-juniorsakawuli2581 3 жыл бұрын

Where is Count Dankula at for this one?

@solia8450 2 жыл бұрын

Nice series.

@happyhero1985 3 жыл бұрын

"You're on the other side of an ocean. What the f uck are you going to do about it?" - George Washington "You got slaves too bro!" - John Glassford "Oh dear, 250 or so years from now, someone may find great offence." - George Washington. Next week on Empires of Dirt - George Washington and the dark beginnings of the United States of America.

@garuna5688 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine how sad your life must be to dislike something just cause it mentions slavery.

@adamwyker4800 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, can you imagine how pathetic a person must be for them to be hyper-focused on black slavery in America in 2020? The myopic obsession is pure weakness.

@garuna5688 3 жыл бұрын

@@adamwyker4800 See? Imagine being this loser.

@PhillieDXO 3 жыл бұрын

@@adamwyker4800 no one is hyper focused on anything, calm down. And please dont forget that segregation ended only 74 years ago.

@yungwallzy 3 жыл бұрын

there are some points she didnt brought up that missleads her narratives slavery is a complex subject

@harryzhang1 20 сағат бұрын

Great presentation!

@elluisito000 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know what was I expecting from a vice video

@LondonPestControl 3 жыл бұрын

The dark relationship between vice and its obsession with race baiting

@minmax5 3 жыл бұрын

How is this "race baiting"?

@1991enduro 3 жыл бұрын

Defo race baiting as vice is very left sided

@Whitepandemic 3 жыл бұрын

@@minmax5 bc all they talk is EU is the source of all evil. when it wasnt, they were just like any other empire

@wigsmey4462 3 жыл бұрын

How about telling history? If it makes you uncomfortable to hear true history that’s too bad. Facts don’t care about your feelings.

@minmax5 3 жыл бұрын

@@Whitepandemic "all they talk is EU is the source of all evil" Prove this please.

@joaoalbuquerque457 3 жыл бұрын

Empires of Dirt are great to watch and learn the truth about Colonialism and the abuse imposed on the locals.

@bobertsmaug5583 Жыл бұрын

I agree including Irishmen Africans aboriginals and the countless Asian tribes

@joshuawaring4180 3 жыл бұрын

What’s with the Holier than thou attitude? What about the Arabic and African slave trades?

@jordyboyharddance 3 жыл бұрын

You seem to have forgot to mention Nelson Mandela place (named after the man himself) which is literally around the corner from the merchant city.

@brylan3237 3 жыл бұрын

Why are there CCTV cameras everywhere?

@fiuttello 3 жыл бұрын

coz it's Glasgae

@CheekyMonkey888 3 жыл бұрын

because the Scots are now slaves to the globalist elites what goes around comes around

@Lou13Cyf3r 3 жыл бұрын

.....gotta love how VICE almost always ends everything and anything with a connection to slavery.

@DrHrishikeshApte 2 жыл бұрын

Are we forgetting how AI is making humans slave??

@yadavaadityanandlal 2 жыл бұрын

I know its hard to digest these facts as your ancestors were monsters in human skin what they did to others is more shocking and horrific than fiction but thus was the reality and if you cant acknowledge the historical wrong doings atleast dont disrespect the dead. Hope you learn your history and heal together rather than stay ignorant.

@TeamOT 3 жыл бұрын

I mean, can't you replace tobacco with basically any product and loosely copy paste this script on it?

@itheuserfirst3186 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, yes you can. It turns out, morality is subjective, and partial to moments in time. As humans, we want it to be a more permanent fixture, but humans are animals, and morality is an ever shifting scale of judgement. Overall, nature is amoral, and we are a part of that; which compklicates everything.

@18661873 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting. Who has a light so I can smoke my cigar?

@gigalulmansur 3 жыл бұрын

Why the dislikes? Some people don't like hearing about their countries origins?

@ReclusiveEagle 3 жыл бұрын

White people who don't want to acknowledge racism and racial inequality is a reality in 2020

@taiefmiah 3 жыл бұрын

Have you see the Sainsbury's Christmas advertisement.

@mbtravel7294 3 жыл бұрын

Facts 💯

@andrewjones575 3 жыл бұрын

@@ReclusiveEagle This video isn't about the present day.

@mjreikiriot3302 3 жыл бұрын

Dang, this host is good.👍

@loganlawson6919 3 жыл бұрын

I thought On the Regular was about to start playing at the start

@trednax_7789 3 жыл бұрын

All the sudden I want to smoke, thanks Vice.

@Patch4er 3 жыл бұрын

Someone needs to go back 400 years and stop these naughty brits!

@mrcool2107 2 жыл бұрын

Someone needs to go back to history class and need to educate urself. Instead of being jelous of British empire

@mrcool2107 2 жыл бұрын

@ric Gikonyo British has done more good than bad . I mean how can 2nd most influential empire in history be bad

@nickolasfredrickson9598 3 жыл бұрын

Did she really just try to make 40 years sound longer by saying a third of a century LMAO

@unreapedfx 3 жыл бұрын

Columbus wasn’t a Spanish colonist, he was hired by the Spanish because Portugal owed the Spanish. The funny thing is Columbus actually sort of was a slave to the Spanish for a short time because he was forced the make sail to return with profit to pay of the Spanish

@gregorypate1801 3 жыл бұрын

Speak the truth.. This series is awesome

@frenchfrench4514 3 жыл бұрын

About time we knocked everything down. Start again, blank canvas, start with the pyramids and we'll work our way up to Glasgow and finish there, meet you in Egypt.