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Share your thoughts on the Guardian’s Cotton Capital series

We would like to hear readers’ opinions about the Cotton Capital series exploring Britain and the Guardian’s links to transatlantic slavery

The Guardian - UK

How our founders’ links to slavery change the Guardian today

The Guardian is facing up to, and apologising for, the fact that its first editor drew his wealth from a practice that was a crime against humanity

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - A new memorial for victims of slavery will help London address its past

“Fighting slavery’s legacy of racism through transformative education” was the theme of this year’s International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave, held last Saturday.

Evening Standard

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NGOs, MPs and academics call for withdrawal of UK’s illegal migration bill

More than 60 signatories write to PM before Tuesday’s debate, warning bill will ‘cost lives’

The Guardian - UK

At chocolate time, we've discovered what the brands that score best on child labour and the environment have in common

What distinguishes a company that makes “good” chocolate (chocolate untainted by child labour, modern slavery, deforestation and the overuse of agrichemicals) from one that merely makes chocolate?

The Conversation

UN-backed probe cites crimes against humanity in Libya

U.N.-backed human rights experts say there is evidence that crimes against humanity — including women being forced into sexual slavery — have been committed against Libyans and migrants in the North African country

The Independent UK

‘Stop demonising them’: the trafficking victims left behind by UK’s new illegal migration bill

Police found Julia being exploited in a brothel. She helped bring her abusers to justice but new legislation could silence victims and empower traffickers, experts warn

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Bristol will get permanent monument to transatlantic slave trade

"Bristol deserves a national and international monument to honour the victims of the slave trade. This is not a quick campaign, but an enormous undertaking"

Bristol Post

My family owned 1,000 slaves and profited from the trade: this is how I am trying to make amends

I left the BBC to fight for restorative justice. The £100,000 we have so far donated to Grenada should be seen only as a first step, says campaigner Laura Trevelyan

The Guardian - UK

Nearly 10,000 modern slavery victims waiting over two years for Home Office decision

Exclusive: The number of people waiting over two years for a decision has tripled since 2021

The Independent UK

Modern slavery victim ‘worked 105 hours a week for £3.80 per hour’ while waiting for government help

Modern slavery victims say the referral system is failing to protect them from being forced back into exploitation

The Independent UK

Grim truth that tarnishes Drumlanrig’s treasures

Brief letters: Drumlanrig’s riches | Slavery and Austen | Existential T-shirts

The Guardian - UK

London to pay tribute to victims of slave trade with memorial, says mayor

Memorial to be built in London’s Docklands, close to warehouses built to house goods produced through slavery

The Guardian - UK

Stand-up Alfie Brown apologises for using N-word seven times in resurfaced routine

Alfie Brown claimed it was the mistake of a’young comedian’ despite being filmed in his late 20s

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The Week

Nigerian politician guilty of organ-harvesting plot in landmark UK case

A wealthy Nigerian senator, his wife and a doctor have been convicted of organ trafficking under the UK Modern Slavery Act, in a landmark case.

The Guardian - UK

Nigerian politician, wife, and a doctor guilty of organ trafficking to UK

Four convicted of conspiring to exploit a man for his kidney in first verdict of its kind under Modern Slavery Act

The Independent UK

Sold into sex slavery at 15 and convicted of killing her rapist, Pieper Lewis faces further sentencing

The teenage victim of trafficking has violated her parole, leading to a further hearing this week. Meanwhile, the man she says trafficked her has still not been charged. Holly Baxter reports

The Conversation

Here's what businesses and consumers can do to tackle modern slavery in supply chains

Even though the practice of slavery has been formally abolished, an estimated 49.6 million people are in forced labour globally, a quarter of which are children.

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The Guardian - UK

Like it or not, we all bear some responsibility for slavery

Letters: When it comes to atoning for the slave trade, we need to acknowledge how much we have benefited, says Prof Sir Roderick Floud. Plus letters from Nic Madge, Morris Gyles, Rex Knight and Kit Jackson

Salon

The racist roots of gynecology

Modern gynecology was borne of experimentation of enslaved Black women, historian Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens explains

The Independent UK

Cambridge’s Trinity College to examine its links to slavery

An academic will spend four years researching benefits the college gained.

The Guardian - UK

Cambridge college to create fellowship to examine slavery links

Trinity academic to establish how college benefited from slave trade in move to achieve ‘reconciliation’

The Independent UK

Rare anti-slavery poem by Coleridge at risk of leaving UK, according to DCMS

The poem discusses the evils of slavery and laments the fate of slaves on the Middle Passage transportation route.

The Guardian - UK

Export ban on Coleridge anti-slavery manuscript as British buyer sought

Handwritten poem in Greek from his undergraduate years has recommended sale price of £20,400

Daily Mirror

BBC journalist quits corporation to join fight for Caribbean slavery reparations

BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan has quit her job to join the Caribbean's fight for slavery reparations a month after her family announced a £100,000 payment in return for their slave-owning past

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