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King Charles needn’t sell off the crown jewels in atonement for slavery – but Britain must waive Jamaica’s debt

Money can only ever begin to make amends, says activist and former broadcaster Barbara Blake-Hannah

The Guardian - UK

The slave trade and the deep south: accounting for the Cotton capital’s human cost

A visual exploration of how the growth of Manchester as an industrial city had a colossal human cost, the scale of which is difficult to comprehend

The Guardian - UK

Thursday briefing: Why the Home Office’s latest idea to cut the asylum seeker backlog will run aground too

In today’s newsletter: Amelia Gentleman explains why governmental incompetence, not asylum seekers eager to stay in mythical luxury hotels, is at the root of the problem

The Guardian - UK

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If we can’t speak honestly about Britain’s links to slavery, we turn our backs on change

Today’s generation is not responsible for what happened two centuries ago – but it can be guilty of refusing to learn from it, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian - UK

Glasgow residents asked to give views on city's slavery legacy

An action plan is to be drawn up to address the issue of the city's links to the slavery

Glasgow Live

From the archive: how the Guardian covered slavery

The paper supported abolition – but backed payment for enslavers, and criticised more radical campaigners. In the US civil war, the editors refused to support the north

The Guardian - UK

The Manchester Guardian: the limits of liberalism in the kingdom of cotton

Manchester’s liberal establishment backed the abolition of British slavery – but their wealth depended on the labour of enslaved Africans in the United States

The Guardian - UK

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Europe’s human rights watchdog warns UK over illegal migration bill

Council of Europe’s experts say bill is ‘step backwards’ in fight against modern slavery

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Guardian owner apologises for founders’ transatlantic slavery links

Scott Trust to invest in decade-long programme of restorative justice after academic research into newspaper’s origins. Plus, why the Gwyneth Paltrow ski trial farce is so unmissable

The Guardian - UK

UK government and royals called on to investigate slavery links after Guardian apology

UN experts lead calls for public and private bodies to take steps toward restorative justice

The Guardian - UK

Kindred review – a reductive, hollow view of Black trauma

This depressing, mundane adaptation takes Octavia Butler’s groundbreaking 1979 novel and turns its time-travelling depictions of slavery into something woeful. What a letdown

The Guardian - UK

Wednesday briefing: The real origins of the money that helped found the Guardian

In today’s newsletter: The Guardian’s owner has apologised for the newspaper’s historic links to the trade of enslaved people – this is why

The Guardian - UK

Morning Mail: Guardian apology for slavery links, bushfire ‘tragedy’ in NT, Israel crisis deepens

Guardian Australia’s owner announces reckoning with founders’ links to ‘crime against humanity’; bushfires burn through NT national park

The Guardian - AU

UK’s illegal migration bill will force traffickers underground, says May

Former prime minister said Sunak’s immigration proposals could deny support to modern slavery victims

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The Guardian view on our links to slavery: a necessary reckoning with the past

Editorial: Facing up to the fact that Britain was built on subjugation and empire will help navigate the future

The Independent UK

May: Immigration reforms make it harder to catch traffickers and slave drivers

The former prime minister wants talks with the Government to ease her concerns for modern slavery victims.

The Independent UK

Their stories were lost to slavery. Now DNA is writing them

A project in Charleston, South Carolina, is using DNA to trace the African roots of three dozen people buried in the late 1700s

The Independent UK

Guardian apologises after founders’ link to transatlantic slavery revealed

Research commissioned in 2020 by the paper’s owner threw up ‘significant new facts’ about the publication’s founder

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The Scott Trust publishes review into the Guardian’s historical connections with transatlantic slavery, issuing an apology and outlining a programme of restorative justice

The Scott Trust has today published its review into the Guardian’s historical connections with transatlantic slavery.

The Guardian - UK

Slavery and the Guardian: the ties that bind us

There is an illusion at the centre of British history that conceals the role of slavery in building the nation. Here’s how I fell for it

The Guardian - UK

Guardian owner apologises for founders’ links to transatlantic slavery

Scott Trust to invest in decade-long programme of restorative justice after academic research into newspaper’s origins

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian and slavery: what did the research find and what happens next?

The Scott Trust has apologised and announced a programme of restorative justice after identifying the Guardian founders’ links to transatlantic slavery

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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.

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