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Legacies of Enslavement programme

  • Legacies of Enslavement Programme Team text on orange background with map images and arrows overlaid

    Meet the Legacies of Enslavement programme team

  • Legacies of Enslavement advisory panel text on orange background with map images and arrows overlaid

    Legacies of Enslavement advisory panel

  • The historians Prof David Olusoga and Dr Cassandra Gooptar reveal how the Manchester Guardian’s 19th-century founders had connections to transatlantic enslavement and how a ‘trick of history’ has obscured our understanding of the links between slavery and Britain’s Industrial Revolution
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    ‘That reality can’t be negotiated with’
    David Olusoga on the Guardian’s links to slavery - video

  • Names of people coming into focus

    In memoriam: the enslaved people linked to the Guardian

Our work

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    Legacies of Enslavement programme: overview of our work

  • Link to the full academic research

  • Cotton Capital: a special investigation 2023

  • Cotton Capital: ongoing series

Latest news

  • women standing with umbrellas

    California brings new state reparations bills amid Trump onslaught on DEI: ‘The fight for justice’

  • Gaston Browne, the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, in 2022.

    Caribbean leaders vow to maintain pursuit of slavery reparations

  • Liliane Umubyeyi

    Thanks to Trump, it is now in Europe’s self-interest to compensate Africa for slavery

    Liliane Umubyeyi
  • An illustration showing images of the royal family and protesters calling for reparations

    The Long Wave: Why more countries are ditching the British monarchy

  • Brown Brothers Harriman’s slavery links exposed by Liverpool campaign

  • Transatlantic slavery’s role in shaping Manchester to be explored in exhibition

  • Return looted shipwreck treasures to countries of origin as reparations for slavery, says lawyer

  • California city council passes $5.9m reparations deal with ex-residents

  • Mel Stride appointed shadow chancellor and Priti Patel shadow foreign secretary as Kemi Badenoch announces team – as it happened

  • It’s time for Britain to acknowledge the need for slavery reparations

  • Not one government has paid into fund for victims of Uganda warlord, says ICC

  • No, Robert Jenrick, former colonies do not owe a ‘debt of gratitude’ for Britain’s legacy of brutality and exploitation

    Kenneth Mohammed

Press releases

  • Close up of cotton yarn in the Jaquard loom in the Textiles Gallery at the Science and Industry Museum

    The Guardian to partner with the Science and Industry Museum on a major free new exhibition on the links between Manchester, cotton and transatlantic slavery

  • Newly appointed Chris Osuh, community affairs correspondent and Keisha Thompson, programme manager for the Guardian’s Legacies of Enslavement project based in Manchester

    The Guardian announces two new Manchester appointments

  • Top left to bottom right: Natricia Duncan, Caribbean correspondent; Tiago Rogero, South America correspondent; Eromo Egbejule, West Africa correspondent; Carlos Mureithi, East Africa correspondent; and Tobi Thomas, UK health and inequalities correspondent)

    The Guardian appoints new correspondents in the Caribbean, South America, Africa and the UK, boosting its coverage of underreported communities

  • Trevor Burnard Wilberforce Institute - 3887 high res

    Trevor Burnard obituary

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