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Metal used for west African artworks was acquired from manilla bracelets, the grim currency of the slave tradeScientists have discovered that some of the Benin bronzes were made with brass mined thousands of miles away in the German Rhineland.The Edo p…
Greater Manchester mayor writes in Guardian in response to disclosures in newspaper’s Cotton Capital projectLike the Guardian, Manchester is reckoning with its historical links to slaveryAndy Burnham has said more needs to be done to tell the story of …
Exclusive: 240-year-old scrap of indigo woollen cloth identified as fabric made in Yorkshire to clothe millions of enslaved peopleIt is a scrap of indigo woollen cloth that is slightly moth-eaten and so tiny that few would give it a second glance, but …
UN experts lead calls for public and private bodies to take steps toward restorative justiceUN experts are leading calls for the British government and royal family to investigate their historical links to transatlantic slavery and take steps toward re…
In today’s newsletter: The Guardian’s owner has apologised for the newspaper’s historic links to the trade of enslaved people – this is whySign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. The story of the Manchester Guardian began in 1…
Memorial to be built in London’s Docklands, close to warehouses built to house goods produced through slaveryLondon is to have a memorial commemorating the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, the first such monument of its scale in Britain, the m…
Trinity academic to establish how college benefited from slave trade in move to achieve ‘reconciliation’A University of Cambridge college is to appoint an academic to examine its legacies of slavery.Trinity College, Cambridge, has announced that its ne…
Handwritten poem in Greek from his undergraduate years has recommended sale price of £20,400A handwritten manuscript containing a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge railing against the slave trade has been temporarily barred from leaving the UK in the hop…
Programme highlights fact that much of 19th-century wealth was built on the back of transatlantic practiceThe government of Catalonia has said the wealthy Spanish region must confront “the past racism” of its slave-trading history, after a documentary …
Labour MP says Rishi Sunak should talk to region’s leaders after Trevelyan family announcementsThe Labour MP Clive Lewis has called on Rishi Sunak to enter negotiations with Caribbean leaders on paying reparations for Britain’s role in slavery, followi…