Glasgow University to make amends over slavery profits of past

University received ‘significant financial support’ from slavery in 18th and 19th centuries

Glasgow University has announced a programme of “reparative justice” after a year-long study discovered that the university benefited from the equivalent of tens of millions of pounds donated from the profits of slavery.

The report states that although the university itself “adopted a clear anti-slavery position”, during the 18th and 19th centuries it received gifts and bequests from people connected to slavery.

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