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Cardinal Newman: pro-slavery views of prominent 19th-century cleric raise questions about his educational legacy

One of the comforting stories the British told themselves in the 19th and 20th centuries was that they were implacably opposed to slavery.

The Conversation

Labour accuses new antislavery watchdog of being ‘Conservative patsy’

Commissioner role was vacant for 18 months and is now set to be filled by former Boris Johnson adviser

The Guardian - UK

Deputy Children’s Commissioner appointed to anti-slavery role

The position had been vacant since Dame Sara Thornton finished her term in April 2022.

The Independent UK

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Scottish university reveals links to slavery profits in new report

A SCOTTISH university has revealed the connections of its 18th-century antecedent institution to the profits of slavery in a new report ...

The National (Scotland)

Rethinking Columbus

Conservative columnist Jeff Jacoby explains why he reconsidered his previous favorable view of Columbus. The man was a brutal promoter of slavery - even by moral standards understood in his own time.

Reason

Keir Starmer urged to make King Charles pay for monarchy's role in slavery

A CAMPAIGN group within the Labour Party are calling on Keir Starmer to ensure King Charles pays reparations for the monarchy’s role in slavery.

The National (Scotland)

World’s first reparatory justice master’s launches in Glasgow and West Indies

Partnership between Glasgow University and University of the West Indies was established as part of a reparative justice programme

The Guardian - UK

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‘We need to tell people everything’: Portugal grapples with legacy of colonial past

European country with longest involvement in the slave trade is coming under pressure to give ‘a real sorry’ for its role

The Guardian - UK

Visa exploitation review urges tougher penalties and a ban on temporary migrants in sex work. Would this solve the problem?

Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil has railed against the exploitation of Australia’s migration system, saying it has been “used to perpetrate some of the worst crimes to humanity, sexual slavery and human trafficking”.

The Conversation

Migration system enabled worst crimes known to humanity

Human trafficking, organised crime and modern slavery have flourished thanks to weaknesses in Australia's immigration system.

AAP

Paradise prison: How 107 Bangladeshis became enslaved on a Pacific island

Instead of legitimate jobs, 107 men from Bangladesh became slaves in Vanuatu working under the threat of harm, death.

Al Jazeera

Brazil bank’s past slavery ties to be investigated in unprecedented inquiry

Banco do Brasil, one of country’s biggest banks, under scrutiny as institutions called to account for role in trafficking of Africans

The Guardian - US

The G-20’s screen over ‘mazdoors’, their rights

The G-20 should have discussed investments in job creation, compliance with the promise of the fundamental principles and rights at work

The Hindu

Why separating fact from fiction is critical in teaching US slavery

Of all the debate over teaching U.S. slavery, it is one sentence of Florida’s revised academic standards that has provoked particular ire: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

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The National (Scotland)

POLL: Should Scotland establish a Museum of Empire and Slavery?

SCOTTISH Liberal Democrat MSP Willie Rennie has called for greater recognition of the role Scotland played in the British Empire with the…

The National (Scotland)

Calls for a Museum of Empire and Slavery to recognise Glasgow’s imperialist past

Calls have been made for a Museum of Empire and Slavery to recognise Glasgow’s major role in British imperialism.

The Guardian - US

Historic Texas island is frontline for preserving rights of Black voters

Galveston Island was a key site towards the end of US slavery but Republicans are testing what remains of the 1965 Voting Rights Act to draw a controversial redistricting map

The Independent UK

Swing Low Sweet Chariot meaning and lyrics: Is the England rugby song linked to slavery?

England rugby’s official anthem, which holds very different connotations either side of the Atlantic, continues to be sung by fans at Twickenham and abroad

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The Independent UK

Richard Madeley criticised for ‘vile’ treatment of Guyana president Irfaan Ali on GMB

‘GMB’ host Madeley grew increasingly infuriated while questioning Ali about slavery reparations

The National (Scotland)

Descendant of Viscount behind removal of slave trade plaque from statue

THE descendant of an 18th century politician who was accused of delaying the abolition of slavery has claimed responsibility for removing a plaque…

The Conversation

Slavery, illusion and dead white men: Zadie Smith's The Fraud explodes the historical novel

Victorian England loved a juicy scandal and Zadie Smith situates The Fraud in one of the mid-19th century’s most toothsome cause célèbres: the Tichborne case.

The Guardian - UK

UN report urges countries to consider financial reparations for transatlantic slavery

UN secretary general says no country has comprehensively accounted for the past

The Guardian - UK

A plaque on a statue can’t cover a cruel slave trader’s mass murder. My ancestors deserve better

Keeping a statue to William Beckford in London reeks of moral failure, says lecturer and broadcaster Robert Beckford

Evening Standard

Explanatory plaques fixed to London statues linked to slavery

City of London Corporation will fix plaques to statues of William Beckford and Sir John Cass

The Guardian - UK

Mandatory anti-slavery declarations risk becoming ‘box-ticking exercise’, say UK MPs

Exclusive: Criticism comes after it emerged ministers took assurances from one previously slavery-linked firm on trust

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