Another fine episode of this series. A small history of Black Manchester, of which i knew nothing at all.

[Cotton Capital] Episode 5: Resistance #cottonCapital
https://podcastaddict.com/cotton-capital/episode/157000851 via @PodcastAddict

This is fantastic

[Cotton Capital] Episode three: The Sea Islands #cottonCapital
https://podcastaddict.com/cotton-capital/episode/156292621 via @PodcastAddict

This episode of #cottoncapital @guardian podcast about Black histories of Manchester is just brilliant, informative & joyful. Drawing out these threads of connection between British society, colonial histories & migration histories is *essential*.
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RT @Lanre_Bakare
My contribution to Cotton Capital: a long read on Manchester, race and the power of civic memory https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2023/mar/31/a-tale-of-tw…
https://twitter.com/Lanre_Bakare/status/1641716317110542337

In #TheGuardian, a crossover between two series, #CottonCapital and #CostOfTheCrown—
The Colston connection: how Prince William’s Kensington Palace home is linked to #slavery

#RoyalFamily https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/06/how-prince-william-kensington-palace-home-is-linked-to-slavery

In the story of the founding of #TheGuardian in the #CottonCapital series, there’s a reference to an event called “Peterloo Massacre,” which I’d never heard of.

Wikipedia is on it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre

For the #CottonCapital series from The Guardian, launched this past week, a video introduction by historian #DavidOlusoga providing the context for the founding of The Guardian and how it ties into slavery in the Caribbean and in the barrier Sea Islands just off coast of South Carolina and Georgia.
#histodons

https://youtu.be/SfpKDkJrH_s

In the Guardian's #CottonCapital supplement I came across this, which I didn't know:

There was what was often referred to as a 'second middle passage' for #African slaves, landed for sale. The started in the USA's mid-South but when then purchased & transported down to the deep South for exploration.

As David Olusoga points out:
'The victims of that second middle passage were said, at the time, to have been “sold down the river”, a phrase that remains a metaphor for betrayal and abandonment'!

Started to #CottonCapital series in #TheGuardian—

Newspaper founded in 1821 in cotton milling city after an event called The Peterloo Massacre.

9 of the 11 founding funders who financed The Manchester Guardian have solid proven ties to slavery in the “new world” — the Caribbean and the “Sea Islands” (barrier islands off coast of SC, GA).

The research to learn the funders’ slavery connections began in fall 2020, this week they began publishing this series.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2023/mar/28/the-cotton-thread-guardian-founders-slavery-john-edward-taylor

A must-read: Cotton Capital. The Guardian. #History #Slavery #Britain #Heritage #CottonCapital @histodons @Denying_History https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/cotton-capital

RT @OlivetteOtele
My piece and role in the @guardian Scott Trust's #CottonCapital project

More than money: the logic of slavery reparations | Olivette Otele https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2023/mar/31/more-than-money-the-logic-of-slavery-reparations?CMP=share_btn_tw

So all this week #TheGuardian have been running stories about how the #CottonTrade in the north west of England benefited from #Slavery.
My grandma worked in the cotton mills in #Oldham and she raised me and my brother from infants off her pension from that job. I'd always thought slavery didn't have anything to do with my family or my town. Its shocking to realise how far reaching it was and that my family benefited from it too 🙁

#CottonCapital