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Church slave trade links report prompts £100m funding to ‘address past wrongs’

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said: ‘I am deeply sorry for these links. It is now time to take action to address our shameful past.’

The Independent UK

C of E setting up £100m fund to ‘address past wrongs’ of slave trade links

Church to back community projects to compensate for financially benefiting from chattel slavery

The Guardian - UK

‘Astonishing’ Pompeii home of men freed from slavery reopens to public

House of the Vettii features ornate and erotic friezes – and a fresco showing god Priapus with huge phallus

The Guardian - UK

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The Mancunian Way: A chink in the armour

How the tentacles of modern slavery reach far and wide PLUS Dogs on trams AND A home after three decades on the streets

Manchester Evening News

Study: British And Irish Ancestry Present In Scandinavia Due To Viking Raids And Slavery Practices

A migration from the west impacted all of Scandinavia, scientists said included British ancestry ‘widespread’ in Scandinavia.

Zenger

'We've rescued kids from dealers and women from pimps. It's getting worse out there'

DC Colin Ward has been a key part of Greater Manchester Police’s modern slavery team for more than a decade

Manchester Evening News

McCarthy's struggles point to troubles ahead for his office, his party and Congress

The memory of the speakership fights leading up to the Civil War remind us that the consequences of dysfunction in the national government affect us all.

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‘A search for ourselves’: shipwreck becomes focus of slavery debate

Vessel that sank with more than 200 transported people onboard is being used to humanise the story of slavery

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh Royal Infirmary owned slave estate in Jamaica and got £832 in 'compensation'

It has been found that the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, who owned a Jamaican plantation, received hundreds of pounds from the British Government when the slave trade was abolished.

Edinburgh Live

How reparation efforts in Barbados found an international spotlight

The online buzz over high profile Britons' ties to the trans-Atlantic slave trade put attention on the ongoing reparations push in Barbados, and other Caribbean nations.

WEKU

Edinburgh Royal Infirmary owned slave estate in Jamaica and got 'compensation' after abolition

Red Hill pen in Jamaica was left to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 1749 and the hospital was given hundreds of thousands of pounds (in today's money) by the British Government as 'compensation' for their losses when slavery was abolished in 1834.

Daily Record

Benedict Cumberbatch's ancestors got rich from slavery in Barbados. Now he could be on the hook for reparations

A century and a half before the celebrated British actor was born, Benedict Cumberbatch's ancestors enslaved hundreds of people and forced them to toil away on a sugar plantation in Barbados.

ABC News

Benedict Cumberbatch's family could face legal action over historical links to slavery

The Sherlock and Marvel stars family has previously expressed his remorse over his own family's links to slavery

Daily Mirror

This student reporter infiltrated a 'cyber hell' where women and girls were sexually exploited, and helped catch the ringleaders

Two South Korean university students helped police break up one of the largest digital networks of sexual slavery in South Korea. But to get there, they had to spend months immersed in a harrowing online world that continues to haunt them years later.

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Commentary: Films about slavery mislead us into believing oppression is a thing of the past

Antoine Fuqua’s “Emancipation” is yet another movie about slavery. Our Black colleagues express a resounding fatigue with films on Black oppression and triumph.

Daily Mirror

Walking election disaster Theresa May says the Tories can win the next election

The former Prime Minister, who lost the Tories their majority in the 2017 snap election, insists Rishi Sunak can turn the party's fortunes around by 2024 and beat Keir Starmer

The Conversation

Black Snow, a new pacy murder mystery, addresses the complicated legacy of slavery in Australia

In 1994, the Australian federal government finally extended recognition to Australian South Sea Islander people as a distinct cultural group. This recognition was important: racism put Australian South Sea Islanders at a disadvantage, yet there was little public recognition of the unique circumstances they and their ancestors had experienced and…

The Independent UK

May warns over risk of creating extra loopholes in migrants crackdown

The ex-premier offered advice to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as he seeks to prevent people exploiting modern slavery rules to avoid deportation.

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Daily Mirror

Evil landlady kept vulnerable woman domestic slave working 14-hour days for seven years

Farzana Kausar from Worthing, Sussex, has been jailed for modern slavery after hiring the 62-year-old woman and taking control of every aspect of her life over a 16-year period

The Guardian - UK

Vietnamese men who died in Oldham fire ‘likely to have been modern slavery victims’

Greater Manchester police believe part of mill used as illegal cannabis factory

The Conversation

Modern slavery: UK's focus on 'genuine' victims has failed survivors since the 1800s

The exploitation of tens of thousands of people through modern slavery is a human rights crisis. There are an estimated 130,000 people currently living in modern slavery in the UK alone.

WEKU

Dutch leader apologizes for the Netherlands' role in slave trade

Prime Minister Mark Rutte's apology comes as many nations' colonial histories have received scrutiny because of the Black Lives Matter movement and the police killing of George Floyd in the U.S.

Tribune News Service

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Supreme Court temporarily blocks the end of Trump-era immigration policy

Manchester Evening News

Men found dead in mill fire 'likely to have been victims of modern slavery' as pictures emerge of devastating site

EXCLUSIVE: Detectives investigating the deaths of Cuong Van Chu, Uoc Van Nguyen, Duong Van Nguyen and Nam Thanh Lee have released fresh details about the case

The Independent UK

Dutch prime minister apologies for role Netherlands played in slave trade

However, critics label the speech as ‘neo-colonial belch’, as lack of reparations raises complaints

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