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    Cotton Capital
    Episode 6: Reparations – podcast

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  • 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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    David Olusoga on the Guardian’s links to slavery: ‘That reality can’t be negotiated with’

    How a ‘trick of history’ has obscured our understanding of the links between slavery and Britain’s Industrial Revolution
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    The backlash: how slavery research came under fire

  • The Door of No Return monument at the historic slave port of Ouidah, Benin

    Let’s teach children about slavery properly by connecting it to our present

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    Cotton Capital: the Guardian and reparations

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