Manchester-based composer creates requiem to honour enslaved Africans
David Önaç uses insurance documents for work funded by Lloyd’s of London after research uncovered its slavery links A centuries-old insurance document...
Study explores links between 19th-century Manchester workers and enslaved Africans in Caribbean
Global Threads research project reveals how slavery hung ‘like a spectre’ over the Peterloo massacre and other Mancunian struggles for equalityThey we...
Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa a...
British corporation continued trafficking of enslaved Africans to Guyana 40 years after abolition
Letter written in 1847 to Sandbach, Tinne and Company’s Liverpool office reveals it engaged in practice after receiving taxpayer-funded compensation, ...
Pope Leo invokes immigrant and enslaved roots in call for US to honour founding ideals
First US pope praises principles of freedom and opportunity in implicit critique of Donald Trump’s policiesPope Leo, the first US pontiff, has express...
Story of enslaved boy featured in 1748 Joshua Reynolds portrait emerges in new study
Exclusive: Until now nothing was known about ‘Jersey’, depicted with naval officer, but research raises hopes he may have won freedomFor hundreds of y...
