Cambridge University to investigate slavery links

Cambridge University has launched a two-year study to investigate its own historical links with colonial slavery and will examine how it might have gained financially from the slave trade. A number of Universities have faced questions about the legacy of links to slavery. “It is only right that Cambridge should look into its own exposure to the profits of coerced labour,” said vice-chancellor Stephen Toope.

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