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Slavery

August 2026

  • A protester in centre of picture holds a placard reading 'We walk with our ancestors'

    Countries legally obliged to consider slavery reparations, says UN committee

  • The 1823 Monument in Georgetown, Guyana, showing a statue of a man holding a machete and broken chain

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    British corporation continued trafficking of enslaved Africans to Guyana 40 years after abolition

  • Jada Evelyn Ramsey and Josiah Alpher in Blackbox at Underbelly, Edinburgh.

    Blackbox review – a legendary escape from slavery is told with magic tricks

  • Paul Daley

    Australia’s ‘pioneer’ colonists profited from slavery. That truth must be acknowledged

    Paul Daley

  • Sydney’s sugar rush: how the colony’s most powerful profited from Australia’s slave trade

  • Australian town defends its ‘long-valued and admired’ statue of an enslaved African American child

July 2026

  • Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

    ‘You can’t paper over the cracks of history. It will haunt you’: Gugu Mbatha-Raw on her race-horror thriller

  • people stand outside

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    Gullah Geechee influence is seen all over the US. Why does a notion of isolation prevail?

  • Graphic showing Frederick Douglass in front of the Free Trade Hall and St Ann's Square in Manchester

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    ‘He became a sensation’: Manchester pays tribute to abolitionist Frederick Douglass

  • Slavery Exhibit RemovedVisitors view the reinstalled educational panels about slavery at the site of President George Washington's home in Philadelphia, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Tassanee Vejpongsa)

    ‘A first step to fascism’: critics denounce Trump administration replacing slavery exhibit at George Washington’s ​home

  • Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    Caribbean calls for return of British Virgin Islands – and for King Charles to back decolonisation

  • Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    ‘True Patriots’: a traveling play honors enslaved Africans’ role in the American revolution

  • C of E’s £100m plan to address historical links to slavery faces legal challenge

  • Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    After historic World Cup success, why does Cabo Verde still grapple with identity issues?

  • Cotton Capital: a special investigation 2023
    ‘Women were currency’: How reparatory justice is spotlighting gender-based violence

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  • Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    Baptism record at Manchester Cathedral offers insight into Black Mancunian life in Georgian-era England

  • America at 250
    Burning flags, busty blondes and bison skulls: 50 photographs that capture America at 250

  • It’s America’s 250th birthday. And Black Americans are sitting out the celebrations

    Morgan Jerkins

  • Trump administration can remove history and climate info from US parks, court says

  • Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    At least 3.3m people were victims of Dutch enslavement, research claims

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