Cotton Capital: The Guardian’s founders and transatlantic slavery
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- Since the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and the toppling of the statue of the enslaver Edward Colston in Bristol, the Guardian has reported on the historic connections between many organisations and the trade in enslaved people.
During this time, we have been researching our own past, too. The Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian, commissioned academic experts from the Universities of Nottingham and Hull to conduct in-depth research on the personal and commercial interests of Taylor and his financial backers, many of whom had connections to the cotton trade. Their findings have shed a light not only on the Guardian, but also on the history of Manchester, Britain’s links with the slave trade, and its lingering legacy on both sides of the Atlantic.
Joseph Harker, the Guardian’s senior editor for diversity and development, chairs a panel of speakers which includes: Katharine Viner, the Guardian’s editor-in-chief; David Olusoga, one of Britain's foremost historians and a Scott Trust member; Dr Cassandra Gooptar of the Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull; and Maya Wolfe-Robinson, the Guardian’s Cotton Capital editor.
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I learned a lot listening to this presentation. Thank you everyone for taking the time to educate the rest of us. Of course, everyone needs to learn history regarding slavery, so thank you for doing the research and allowing us to learn and debunk myths.
Thanks
How about the entire staff of the Guardian tithing 10% of their income if they feel so ashamed of their employer?
Why individuals? I say the Guardian itself should.
well, but the Guardian still used the CCP's agent to be 'China's affair reporter' who never go to China to do any reports, instead he stays in the UK to investigate and PR work for CCP.
Davis Olusoga's opinions would carry more weight if he had a more diligent academic training. He never formally studied history past Masters level; his doctorate is honorary. He should go back to university and get his Phd. Writing a thesis would give his work more rigour and gravitas.
What should Manchester have lived on if they did not buy cotton?
The Guardian company car scheme offers EV with cobalt mined by six year old black African boys turned purple with throat tumours.
Do as I say, not as I do.
I watched this after the live stream. Absolutely fascinating to think about this and then to wonder about the economic and human legacies of this in Australia? No doubt money derived directly or indirectly from slavery was used to fund ventures here and certainly there were plantation owners who came here to start again and began the sugar industry using cheap and/or forced labour.
So if you feel bad about it give all your money to Jamiaca, simples
@@williamdew7143 If you want to give money fine do it hands off mine
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People of Jamaica keep writing to Santa you have two hopes of exhorting money out of the British taxpayer, Bob Hope and No hope!
It matters because this nation's fortune - indeed, even our present - was built on the proceeds of slavery, and the consequences of that still reverberate in our society.
Indeed but the cotton workers of Lancashire were enslaved and their descendants deserve reparations as well
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A pioneering initiative that helps us all become aware of the benefits we enjoy because of this system of hierarchical power still reflected in life today. Thank you.
What the cotton workers of Manchester they suffered just as much, will their descendants get reparations?
Two different issues. Both need attention.
@@peterrobey1654 racist to prioritise one over the other
Life expectancy in Lancashire Mill towns at this time was about two thirds of slaves life expectancy. They were slaves too.
No victims around so no body to give the money to!
Also, Slavery was there before and slavery was there after the brief period when Europeans traded with West African Kingdoms for slaves, nothing is owed. I would not give a cent.
I hear hate and jealousy!
@@rosahacketts1668 Just a person who believes we are all equal, whose ancestors suffered awful things but do not expect a cheeque for that. Slavery was universal around the globe at the time, only the Europeans said 'enough!'.
@@rosahacketts1668 I understand there are times society must take a different approach to different groups but have gone too far and this reparations is way way too far, they get a reward because of who an ancestor was? No.
Boring