Centuries: Glasgow University and Slave

centuries: Glasgow University discovered last year it had benefited financially from Scottish slave traders in the 18th and 19th centuries by between 16.7m and 198m in today's money, according to The Guardian. In what is thought to be the first attempt by a British university to set up a programme of restorative justice, it has pledged to raise 20m for the centre, chiefly in research grants and gifts. It signed an agreement with the University of the West Indies to fund a joint centre for development research, at a ceremony in Glasgow on Friday morning. Universities must follow Glasgow and own up to their role in the slave trade Afua Hirsch Read more Other British universities, including Oxford and Bristol, have been the focus of protests over their ties to the slave trade and to powerful colonialists, such as Cecil Rhodes. The Glasgow agreement was first signed in Kingston, Jamaica, on 31 July. In 2017, All Souls College at Oxford launched an annual scholarship for Caribbean students and paid a 100,000 grant to a college in Barbados, in recognition of its funding from Christopher Codrington, a wealthy slave owner who bequeathed 10,000 in 1710 to build a library that bears his name. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.