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Ex anti-slavery commissioner: Deeply regrettable that role vacant a year on

Dame Sara Thornton said there could potentially be a conflict of interest with the Home Office being in charge of appointing someone to the post.

The Independent UK

Man Utd and Man City badges defended as 'part of past' amid 'links to slavery' claims

The badges of Manchester United and Manchester City contain ships, which have been cited as slavery references, but the city's council are supportive of the strides made from their history

Daily Mirror

Abandon ship: does this symbol of slavery shame Manchester and its football clubs?

A three-masted vessel adorns the city’s buildings and both teams’ crests. But is it an emblem of a crime against humanity?

The Guardian - UK

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Unpapering the cracks: sugar, slavery and the Sydney Morning Herald

In a splash of articles published over the past two weeks, the British Guardian has acknowledged and apologised for its historical links with slavery. The Scott Trust, owners of the newspaper that became a global news website, outlined how the Guardian’s founders were linked to transatlantic slavery and announced a…

The Conversation

Lenny Henry thinks King Charles ‘has an interest’ in slavery and reparations: ‘He might do something’

The actor reflected on the monarch’s decision to support research into the royals and slavery

The Independent UK

Slavery and the monarchy: time for a royal reckoning?

The list of British institutions reconsidering their uncomfortable relationship with slavery has just acquired an illustrious new member, said The Times.

The Week

Saving anti-slavery poem won’t cost Charles a king’s ransom

Brief letters: Monarchy’s slave trade links | Lancashire cotton workers | Eating squirrel | Ginger Rogers’ films

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Ten arrested for drugs and modern slavery offences after dawn raids

Tens of thousands of pounds of drugs have also been seized following the raids

Manchester Evening News

A Navy ship named for a Confederate victory now honors a Black Union hero

The Navy has renamed the USS Chancellorsville, a name honoring a Confederate victory, to the USS Robert Smalls, after an enslaved man who escaped the South by stealing a Confederate steamship.

WEKU

Research gaps in Australian sex trafficking prevalence

Anti-slavery advocates warn more research and education is needed to prevent sex trafficking and protect vulnerable people at risk of exploitation.

AAP

Second Amendment Roundup: To Preserve Liberty, Not Slavery

Carl Bogus invented the fiction that the purpose of the Second Amendment was slave control.

Reason

Britain’s monarchy backed slavery from day one

Letters: Jordan Andrews on Charles II’s backing for the Royal African Company. Plus, Robert Godsill on Oliver Cromwell’s leading role in slavery

The Guardian - UK

Women in Philippines used as Japanese sex slaves demand justice

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr urged to ‘make a difference’ for now-elderly women after landmark UN decision.

Al Jazeera

Justin Welby defends £100m fund to address C of E’s past links to slavery

In Easter sermon, archbishop of Canterbury says money was not set aside because of ‘postcolonial guilt’

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The Guardian - UK

King Charles urged to ‘take some responsibility’ for royal slavery links

Historical expert welcomes support for research but calls on monarch to acknowledge what happened

The Guardian - UK

Those who tore down Colston’s statue helped lead us to the truth about slavery and the monarchy

BLM protesters in Bristol were accused, in 2020, of ‘erasing history’. Now we know they have flooded it with light, says law lecturer Kojo Koram

Tribune News Service

King Charles shows support for investigation into royal family’s ties to slavery

King Charles III on Thursday said he backed an investigation into the British royal family’s ties to slavery in the 17th and 18th centuries — an issue he takes “profoundly seriously,” according to a Buckingham Palace spokesperson.

ABC News

King Charles III backs research into British monarchy's links to slavery

Buckingham Palace releases a statement saying the King backs an investigation into ties to the slave trade, the first time a British monarch has signalled support for such research.

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The Independent UK

King Charles III supports probe into monarchy's slave ties

King Charles III for the first time has signaled support for research into the British monarchy’s ties to slavery

The National (Scotland)

King backs research into monarchy’s links to slavery but doesn't apologise

CHARLES expressed his support for the first time for research into the historical links between the British monarchy and the transatlantic slave…

Daily Mirror

Dark history of William and Kate's home - as King promises to help investigation

The Royal Family has, for the first time, welcomed research into the historical links between the British monarchy and the transatlantic slave trade

Reuters

King Charles backs research into monarchy's slave links

King Charles has given his support to research that will examine the British monarchy's links to slavery, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday, after a newspaper report said a document showed a historical connection with a transatlantic slave trader.

The New Daily

King Charles backs research into monarchy’s links to slavery

King Charles has expressed his support for research into the historical links between the British monarchy and the transatlantic slave trade.

Evening Standard

King backs research into British monarchy’s links to slavery for first time

The royal household will offer a historian access to the Royal Collection and the Royal Archives as part of the independent academic project.

The Independent UK

King Charles supports research into royal family’s ties to slavery in unprecedented move

Buckingham Palace says it will provide researchers full access to the Royal Collection and the Royal Archives

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