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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Sally Weale Education correspondent

Cambridge college spent £120,000 in failed bid to remove slave trader plaque

Sonita Alleyne. master of Jesus College Cambridge.
Sonita Alleyne. master of Jesus College Cambridge. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

A Cambridge University college spent £120,000 on its failed attempt to remove a memorial in its chapel to a 17th-century benefactor who had extensive involvement in the slave trade, it has emerged.

Writing in the Guardian, Sonita Alleyne, the master of Jesus College, defended the decision to fight the case and criticised the “antiquated” and costly church process that ended in defeat for the college.

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