How have British universities grappled with links to the slave trade?
- The University of Cambridge will conduct a two-year academic study of how much it benefited from the Atlantic slave trade and whether its scholars reinforced race-based thinking during Britain’s colonial era.
He also endowed the Rhodes Scholarship which have allowed thousands of foreign students to study at Oxford in the last century. A spokesman for the university said: “The only way to heal from the wounds of the past is to face them head on, and Oxford University is involved in a number of ongoing projects that will help us to achieve this over time.”
Glasgow professors John Millar, Patrick Wilson , and John Young were all active participants in Glasgow’s abolitionist movement. Millar sent two anti-slave trade petitions to parliament in 1788 and 1792.The University of Bristol rejected a petition to change the name of its Wills Memorial Building in 2017. The building honours its first chancellor whose family profited from tobacco farming using enslaved labour.
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