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Cotton Capital

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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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  • May 8, 2023 · 49 min

    Episode 6: 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?

  • May 1, 2023 · 41 min

    Episode 5: Resistance

    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

  • Apr 24, 2023 · 37 min

    Episode 4: The Brazilian connection

    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

  • Apr 17, 2023 · 48 min

    Episode three: The Sea Islands

    DeNeen L Brown travels to the Sea Islands and meets the Gullah Geechee people – descendants of enslaved Africans who picked cotton prized by traders in Manchester

  • Apr 10, 2023 · 50 min

    Episode 2: The meaning of Success

    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

  • Apr 3, 2023 · 45 min

    Episode 1: The bee and the ship

    Episode one 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

  • Mar 28, 2023 · 49 sec

    Coming soon: Cotton Capital – a new podcast from the Guardian

    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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