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Legacies of Enslavement programme

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

    Legacies of Enslavement programme: overview of our work

    The 10-year restorative justice initiative launched in response to the Guardian founders’ links to transatlantic slavery

  • Link to the full academic research

  • 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

  • The Long Wave composite image: a member of the Nigeria army poses for a photograph in Dutse, Nigeria. Army tank at the checkpoint entrance of Monguno, Borno state with local people entering. Fulani herdsman Isa Ibrahim. Women and children rescued from Boko Haram arrive at an internally displaced people's camp in Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria.

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  • People with umbrellas walking along dirt and grass

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    A Black Georgia community uprooted in 1942 still fights to go home

    US descendants of Harris Neck’s Gullah Geechee families seek the return of ancestral land seized for a wartime airfield
  • Close up of cotton yarn in the Jaquard loom in the Textiles Gallery at the Science and Industry Museum

    The Guardian to partner with the Science and Industry Museum on a major free new exhibition on the links between Manchester, cotton and transatlantic slavery

  • Colourful illustration featuring floating bodies, some holding hands

    ‘We feel the pain but there is also joy’: the healing power of diasporic connection

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Programme Launch

  • 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

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

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  • Names of people coming into focus

    In memoriam: the enslaved people linked to the Guardian

  • Proclamation Abolishing Slavery Memorial, King's House, Jamaica

    Guardian apology to the Jamaican government at Emancipation Jubilee event

  • Cotton Capital: a special investigation 2023

Slavery and Reparatory Justice

  • Prof Sir Hilary Beckles

    Caribbean slavery reparations body decries claims it aims to ‘break UK Treasury’

  • Sir Hilary Beckles

    Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice

  • Church with its entire roof missing

    Hurricane Melissa a ‘real-time case study’ of colonialism’s legacies

  • Four pale images of an African woman with her body coloured blue, in a sheet wrapped around her like a dress, passing though an empty room with rough decaying walls

    Women behind the lens: ‘I envisioned these slaves whose lives were exchanged for indigo’