The University of Cambridge said on Tuesday it would conduct a two-year academic...
LONDON - The University of Cambridge said on Tuesday it would conduct a two-year academic study of how it benefited from or validated the Atlantic slave trade and other forms of coerced labor during the colonial era.
Estimates vary widely, but somewhere between 10 million and 28 million Africans are believed to have been shipped across the Atlantic between the 15th and 19th centuries. Many died on the way. “It is reasonable to assume that, like many large British institutions during the colonial era, the University will have benefited directly or indirectly from, and contributed to, the practices of the time,” said Millett, a professor of archaeology.
It is unclear what action Cambridge will take if it does find that it benefited from slavery or validated it.Some of the West’s top universities have been examining their past and the provenance of some of their wealth. In the United States, southern campuses have been rocked by arguments over the confederate flag.
Last year, Glasgow University said it would launch a “program of reparative justice” after discovering it gained up to 200 million pounds in today’s money from historical slavery.
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