Cotton Capital: The Guardian’s founders and transatlantic slavery

Since the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and the toppling of the statue of the enslaver Edward Colston in Bristol, the Guardian has reported on the historic connections between many organisations and the trade in enslaved people.

During this time, we have been researching our own past, too. The Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian, commissioned academic experts from the Universities of Nottingham and Hull to conduct in-depth research on the personal and commercial interests of Taylor and his financial backers, many of whom had connections to the cotton trade. Their findings have shed a light not only on the Guardian, but also on the history of Manchester, Britain’s links with the slave trade, and its lingering legacy on both sides of the Atlantic.

Joseph Harker, the Guardian’s senior editor for diversity and development, chairs a panel of speakers which includes: Katharine Viner, the Guardian’s editor-in-chief; David Olusoga, one of Britain's foremost historians and a Scott Trust member; Dr Cassandra Gooptar of the Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull; and Maya Wolfe-Robinson, the Guardian’s Cotton Capital editor.
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