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
  • Episode three: The Sea Islands

    Episode three: The Sea Islands
    Apr 17 2023
    Journalist DeNeen L Brown travels to the Sea Islands in the US and meets the Gullah Geechee people – direct descendants of enslaved Africans who picked the distinctive Sea Island cotton prized by traders in Manchester
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    48 mins
  • Episode 2: The meaning of Success

    Episode 2: The meaning of Success
    Apr 10 2023
    Our second episode follows journalist Maya Wolfe-Robinson as she travels to Jamaica in search of the site of the former sugar plantation Success, once co-owned by the Guardian funder Sir George Philips
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    51 mins
  • Episode 1: The bee and the ship

    Episode 1: The bee and the ship
    Apr 3 2023
    The first episode of the new Guardian podcast series Cotton Capital explores the revelations that the Guardian’s founding editor, John Edward Taylor, and at least nine of his 11 backers, had links to slavery, principally through the textile industry
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    46 mins
  • Coming soon: Cotton Capital – a new podcast from the Guardian

    Coming soon: Cotton Capital – a new podcast from the Guardian
    Mar 28 2023
    This new six-part series explores how transatlantic slavery shaped the Guardian, Manchester, Britain and the world. Stemming from an investigation into the Guardian founders’ own links to slavery, this ongoing series explores that history and its enduring legacies today. Search ‘Cotton Capital’ wherever you get your podcasts
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    1 min