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The Guardian
Cotton Capital
Cotton Capital is a podcast series that explores how transatlantic slavery shaped the Guardian, Manchester, Britain and the world. Stemming from an investigation into the Guardian founder's own links to slavery, this ongoing series explores that history and its enduring legacies today. Search for it wherever you get your podcasts
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Ratings & Reviews
4.5 stars from 185 ratings
Enlightening
As a Guardian reader, and hailing from Manchester, this work has opened my eyes to my ignorance of history and the system that has prevented the telling of it.
FayLo1 via Apple Podcasts · Great Britain · 04/03/24
Heartbreaking history that, sadly, cannot be altered. This story MUST be told and retold and never be forgotten. Makes me ashamed to be British.
ADWB54 via Apple Podcasts · Great Britain · 06/22/23
Impressive podcast!
Highly recommended! Keep up the great work!
TatVZ via Apple Podcasts · Germany · 05/09/23
Recent Episodes
In the final episode of the series, Cotton Capital editor and Guardian journalist Maya Wolfe-Robinson looks at the subject of reparations. What do reparations mean for the communities and descendants of transatlantic enslavement – and what is the Guardian planning to do in its own programme of...
Published 05/08/23
Published 05/08/23
Guardian journalist and Cotton Capital special correspondent Lanre Bakare examines Black Mancunian history, beginning with the 1945 Pan-African Congress that took place in the city and shaped independence movements across Africa
Published 05/01/23
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