The Scott Trust has set out proposals for a ten-year program of restorative justice, which will be supported with funding focused in the US, Jamaica, and the UK. Read the proposals:
The initial phase of research focused largely on John Edward Taylor’s business investments and partnerships, and those of the 11 men who lent him money to found the Manchester Guardian, and their links with slavery. The researchers went on to study the wider personal, familial and commercial networks of these individuals in the context of the slave economy, the wider cotton trade in Manchester generally in the 19th century, and the global networks that facilitated its growth.
An entry from Pigot & Dean’s New Directory of Manchester and Salford linking John Edward Taylor’s firm Shuttleworth, Taylor & Co to the cotton and thread merchant Strutt.
It has not been possible to identify detailed biographies for the remaining two backers, though it is likely both were involved in the cotton and textiles industries. formed Manchester Guardian. A supplementary research report, completed in September 2022, found no evidence that Greg was a funder or shareholder in the Manchester Guardian. The extensive academic research summarised above makes clear that John Edward Taylor, our founding editor, and most of the backers who helped fund the Manchester Guardian had links to transatlantic slavery.
In the decades that followed, the paper’s editorial position on the US civil war often ran counter to the cause of emancipation, or favoured the Confederacy.
These connections are as relevant to the Guardian’s origin story as the 1819 Peterloo massacre, and they pose a fundamental question for us: what does it mean to be a progressive organisation that was born out of the profits of human bondage? We look forward to engaging in dialogue, particularly with descendant communities, in the UK, the US and Jamaica, and with our readers and our staff, to carry out this important work.
The progress of this work has been overseen by a committee of Scott Trust members: David Olusoga; Matthew Ryder; the Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner; and the Scott Trust chair, Ole Jacob Sunde. Sunde’s predecessor, Alex Graham, initiated the review and was a member of this committee until stepping down from the trust in 2021. The entire Scott Trust has discussed the proposals at regular intervals at its board meetings during 2022 and early 2023.
raise awareness of our findings, and of Manchester’s and Britain’s involvement with transatlantic slavery, and of the trade in enslaved Africans more broadly.
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