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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Richard Adams Education editor

Elite UK schools’ financial links to slavery revealed

Eton College and Eton College Chapel
More than 100 former pupils of Eton College received the equivalent of £905m in 1834 to compensate for their ‘ownership’ of more than 27,000 formerly enslaved people. Photograph: Mark Kerrison/In Pictures/Getty

Some of Britain’s most elite schools benefited from slavery through substantial donations and endowments worth the equivalent of tens of millions of pounds today, research has found.

Eton College, Christ’s Hospital school and Liverpool’s Blue Coat grammar are among the 29 schools still operating that have significant documented links to donations from people who profited from slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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