The Guardian apologises for founder's historical links to slave trade by LeahMahon_
THE GUARDIAN newspaper has apologised after revealing for the first time its founder’s historical connections to the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Mr Taylor had partnerships in cotton manufacturing and merchant firms which imported raw cotton produced by enslaved people in the Americas to the northern city. “As we enter our third century as a news organisation, this awful history must reinforce our determination to use our journalism to expose racism, injustice and inequality, and to hold the powerful to account,” she said.
The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was conjured up by the British government to compensate slave owners, however, Sir Phillips was unsuccessful in his claim for the 108 enslaved Black people under his ownership. Ole Jacob Sunde, chair of the Scott Trust, said the organisation was “deeply sorry” for Mr Taylor and his backers role in the slave economy and pledged to invest up to £10ml to run a restorative justice programme over the course of a decade.
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