Antiques auction selling neck shackles accused of ‘profiting from slavery’

‘I think it’s important not to upset and offend, but shock people into learning the whole truth,’ the auctioneer, Marcus Salter, said. Photograph: Facebook.com/Cheeky Auctions Tain

An antiques auction selling chains linked to the enslavement of African people in Zanzibar has been accused of “profiting from slavery”.

Neck irons dated to the Omani-Arab dominated trade in enslaved people in east Africa, which ended after African resistance and British pressure in the late 19th century, will go on sale this weekend in Scotland.