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Friday briefing: One year on from the Guardian’s look at its historic connections to slavery

In today’s newsletter: What the Legacies of Engagement programme has achieved in its first year – and what’s still to do

The Guardian - UK

It’s not unpatriotic to tell the whole truth about Britain and the end of slavery

The mooted memorial to the navy’s West Africa Squadron seems to be an attempt to rewrite history in a more favourable light, says writer Ella Sinclair

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian appoints new correspondents in the Caribbean, South America, Africa and the UK, boosting its coverage of underreported communities

The new editorial roles form part of the Scott Trust Legacies of Enslavement programme, marking one year since the publication of its report into the Guardian’s historical links with transatlantic slavery

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A historic revolt, a forgotten hero, an empty plinth: is there a right way to remember slavery?

The long read: As the author of a book about a pivotal uprising in 18th-century Jamaica, Vincent Brown was enlisted in a campaign to make its leader a national hero. But when he arrived in Jamaica, he started to wonder what he had got himself into

The Guardian - UK

Six in 10 in UK poll say descendants of enslaved people owed formal apology

Survey finds varying support for apology from government, firms that profited from slavery, and royal family

The Guardian - UK

National monument honoring enslaved Black people set to open in Alabama

The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park and National Monument to Freedom will become the closest the U.S. has a national monument on slavery

Axios

Liverpool museum appeals for information on subject of The Black Boy

Sitter for William Lindsay Windus’s painting is rumoured to have stowed away on ship, possibly to escape slavery in US

The Guardian - UK

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‘A narrative of triumph’: a powerful 17-acre site in Alabama remembers enslavement

The Equal Justice Initiative has created an expansive new experience that aims to pay an honest tribute to courage and resilience as an American equivalent to a Holocaust memorial

The Guardian - US

Sexual exploitation drives 37% rise in profits from forced labour, ILO says

International Labour Organization report says profits have risen to £184bn a year, with 27m people globally trapped in modern slavery

The Guardian - UK

Church of England £100million slavery fund 'almost like bribery' and 'just for show', former race tsar says

Tory peer and former equality tsar Lord Sewell says the church made a ‘political’ decision to start the fund

Evening Standard

‘I tell the truth about what’s unknown’: Moor Mother on revealing Britain’s ongoing slavery links

The American poet and musician’s new album The Great Bailout tracks the money given to British slaveowners – including David Cameron’s ancestors. She explains why she is pessimistic about getting true justice

The Guardian - UK

‘Nobody would listen to me, so I told the camera’: film of Islamic State survivor’s story premieres in UK

Mediha Ibrahim Alhamad was 10 years old when Islamic State fighters raided her Yazidi village and sold her into sexual slavery. The gift of a film camera ‘saved her life’ and led to an award-winning documentary

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s not a lot when you consider the harm’: Why bishop is calling for £1bn in C of E reparations for slavery

Bishop of Croydon Rosemarie Mallett is calling for the Church of England to atone for African chattel slavery

The Guardian - UK

‘A need for memory’: Black Brazilians dig into family roots to fight ‘historical erasure’

Attention is turning to individuals and families as country confronts legacy of slavery and question of reparations

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The Guardian - UK

Church of England has been too slow to atone for slavery links

Brief letters: C of E slavery fund | Stop the small planes | Tax ‘giveaways’ | Cancer talk | Roger Daltrey at 80

Evening Standard

Church of England told to increase reparations fund for links to slavery to £1billion

An investment fund, originally set at £100million, must instead look towards a target of £1billion, a report says

The Guardian - UK

C of E hoping to create £1bn fund to address legacy of slavery

Church plan to seek co-investors for fund comes after advisers said £100m originally earmarked did not reflect scale of ‘moral sin’

The Guardian - UK

Ours by Phillip B Williams review – a fragile utopia for those escaping slavery

Hidden and enchanted, the town of Ours – founded by a woman called Saint – reflects wider truths about US black history

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Latino Teens in the U.S. are the Most Comfortable Talking About Racial Inequality in Class

They were also the least uncomfortable doing so, according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center. Their thoughts on learning about slavery

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Simon Moutaïrou's No Chains, No Masters sheds light on slavery

Discover the highly anticipated directorial debut of acclaimed screenwriter Simon Moutaïrou, 'No Chains, No Masters.' This epic historical drama sheds ligh...

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