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Legacies of Enslavement programme

  • A stack of the first edition of the Manchester Guardian, overlaid with an etching of slaves on a plantation in South Caroline ginning cotton and a cartoon of John Bull kneeling before "'King Cotton' and with old ledger pages poking out underneath

    Summary and Apology
    The Scott Trust Legacies of Enslavement report

    In 2020, the Scott Trust commissioned an academic review into the founding of the Guardian in 1821 by John Edward Taylor and his financial backers. That investigation is now complete, and here we present the findings, along with the trust’s response
  • Composite image showing an 1825 Shuttleworth, Taylor invoice book; a Black Lives Matter protest; a woodcut of the Royal Exchange; a group of formerly enslaved men, women and a child, who were now considered Freedmen; the Cotton Capital logo and a Manchester Guardian masthead

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

  • 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

  • Graphic illustration of map images and arrows overlaying an orange background

    Legacies of Enslavement programme: overview of our work

  • Link to the full report (pdf)

  • Cotton Capital: a special investigation 2023

  • Cotton Capital: ongoing series

Latest news

  • A detail from Hew Locke’s 2-metre-tall collage depicts a line of wooden houses on a hill, with imagery of trees and greenery, stitched-together materials, and, in the background, what appears to be dollar bills and stamps relating to the rubber industry and slave debentures

    ‘A live issue’: Hew Locke’s new work referencing slavery displayed in London

  • A graphic of an older black-and-white photo of three Black people with an illustration of green flowers overlayed

    How Black Americans have been cheated out of land ownership – and the movement to reverse this

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    Oklahoma supreme court dismisses lawsuit of Tulsa massacre survivors

  • José Maria Neves talking into a microphone in front of a green marble wall

    Rise of far right makes reparations debate tough, says Cape Verde president

  • Beatings, brandings, suicides: life on plantations owned by Church of England missionary arm

  • California’s proposals to rectify past discrimination advance through senate

  • Manahahtáanung or Manhattan? Tribal representatives call for apology for Dutch settlement of New York

  • Barbados leader halts £3m payout to UK MP for Drax Hall plantation

  • Britain must develop a partnership of equals with Africa

  • Tory MP from slave-owning family set to gain £3m from sale of former plantation

  • France urged to repay billions of dollars to Haiti for independence ‘ransom’

  • Kemi Badenoch: ‘UK’s wealth isn’t from white privilege and colonialism’

Press releases

  • 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

  • Left: Melissa Hellman, right: Adria Walker

    Guardian US announces hires to race and equity team

  • The Guardian announces new roles in the Caribbean, South America and Africa, and expands its reporting on race in the UK and US

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

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