Skip to main contentSkip to navigationSkip to navigation

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

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

More on this story

More on this story

  • Guardian wins award for exposé of founders’ links to transatlantic slavery

  • King Charles urged to ‘take some responsibility’ for royal slavery links

  • ‘A necessary step forward’: readers on the Guardian’s Cotton Capital series

  • Manchester urged to act on ‘scandalous’ lack of Black people in prominent roles

  • ‘You get frustrated’: three Black leaders on Manchester’s diversity problem

  • Today in Focus
    Cotton Capital: the bee and the ship – examining the Guardian’s links to slavery

  • More than money: the logic of slavery reparations

  • King Charles needn’t sell off the crown jewels in atonement for slavery – but Britain must waive Jamaica’s debt

  • The slave trade and the deep south: accounting for the Cotton capital’s human cost

  • A tale of two cities: the struggle for a Black history of Manchester

Most viewed

Most viewed