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Taylor & associates Links to transatlantic slavery

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LINK TO SLAVERY AS ENSLAVER

LINK TO SLAVERY THROUGH BUSINESS

LINK UNKNOWN

It should be noted that most of the Guardian’s 11 funders were elite members of Manchester society, active in key economic, social, cultural and political networks within the city.

Having garnered this information on the founder and the funders, I moved to, what was for me, the most important part of the research: to trace and identify the enslaved people, and to discover their stories. This was a difficult process. There was

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