LONDON: The owner of British newspaper The Guardian apologised on Tuesday for the role of its founders in transatlantic slavery and announced a “decade-long programme of restorative justice”, following an independent investigation.
The more than two-year “academic review” into the newspaper´s early 19th century creation discovered its main founder John Edward Taylor and many of his financial backers had links to slavery, the paper said.
Researchers from the universities of Hull and Nottingham found that Taylor -- a journalist and cotton merchant -- and at least nine of his 11 financial backers had slavery links, primarily through the textile industry.
The Scott Trust, which owns the media group, plans to invest more than £10 million ($12.3 million) into restorative justice, with millions earmarked for “descendant communities linked to the Guardian´s founders,” the paper added.
“The Scott Trust is deeply sorry for the role John Edward Taylor and his backers played in the cotton trade,” its chair Ole Jacob Sunde said. The trust also apologised for early editorial positions that “served to support the cotton industry, and therefore the exploitation of enslaved people”.
“We recognise that apologising and sharing these facts transparently is only the first step in addressing the Guardian´s historical links to slavery,” Sunde added.
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