Research published today shows that much of the wealth of the Guardian’s founder and his backers was connected to transatlantic slavery
The Scott Trust apologises for the origins of the wealth used to found the Guardian and the part its founders played in the slavery economy
Programme of restorative justice set out by the Scott Trust for the next decade
The Scott Trust has today published its review into the Guardian’s historical connections with transatlantic slavery.
Academic research, commissioned in late 2020 by the Trust and carried out in three stages by the University of Nottingham’s Institute for the Study of Slavery and the University of Hull’s Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, sets out a range of connections between transatlantic slavery and John Edward Taylor, the journalist who founded the Manchester Guardian in 1821, and the other Manchester businessmen who funded the newspaper’s creation.
