Cotton Capital

By: The Guardian
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  • Summary

  • 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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Episodes
  • Episode 6: Reparations

    Episode 6: Reparations
    May 8 2023
    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 measures?
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    50 mins
  • Episode 5: Resistance – podcast | cotton-capital

    Episode 5: Resistance – podcast | cotton-capital
    May 1 2023
    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
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    41 mins
  • Episode 4: The Brazilian connection

    Episode 4: The Brazilian connection
    Apr 24 2023
    During the transatlantic slave trade, more enslaved African people were taken to Brazil than any other country. Today, more than half of Brazil’s population identify as Black and there are more Black people in Brazil than any other country except Nigeria. But the country is still grappling with deep structural racism
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    37 mins

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