High-flying restaurant owner couple who kept a female tourist as a slave in their home for three years offer her $70,000 as they face 10 years in jail Sheila and Joshua McAleer lured a woman from Philippines to Australia in 2013 Woman, who can’t be named, was kept as a house slave for three years in … Read more
The Rowntree chocolate company has apologised after research into its own history revealed ‘shameful’ links to the slave trade and ‘oppressive practices’ in South Africa during the apartheid era. The investigation into the company’s history was party prompted by the Black Lives Matter movement and revealed evidence that the famously philanthropic family business may have … Read more
The Rowntree chocolate company has apologised after research into its own history revealed ‘shameful’ links to the slave trade and ‘oppressive practices’ in South Africa during the apartheid era. The investigation into the company’s history was party prompted by the Black Lives Matter movement and revealed evidence that the famously philanthropic family business may have … Read more
Melbourne couple paid ‘slave’ $3.39 a day, beat her with a frozen chicken and expected her to be on call 24/7 during eight-year ordeal where she slept one hour a night, court hears Tamil woman allegedly kept as slave was paid $3.39/day, on call 24/7, court told Couple allegedly beat the woman with frozen chicken, … Read more
Lloyd’s of London has pledged to publish a catalogue of its 3,000 treasures to root out any connections with the slave trade. The world’s oldest insurance market is seeking an archivist to examine its vast trove of goods obtained over more than three centuries, including paintings, furniture, swords and silverware. Lloyd’s has posted an advert … Read more
Villages, halls, churches and pubs have all been listed as beneficiaries of the ‘transatlantic slavery economy’ by Historic England. A sweeping audit of pre-existing work linked rural communities to ‘money made in transatlantic slavery’ which ‘permeated English society for centuries’. Historic England, an arm of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport which is … Read more
Villages, halls, churches and pubs have all been listed as beneficiaries of the ‘transatlantic slavery economy’ by Historic England. A sweeping audit of pre-existing work linked rural communities to ‘money made in transatlantic slavery’ which ‘permeated English society for centuries’. Historic England, an arm of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport which is … Read more
Oxford University college defies calls to remove statue of slave owner Christopher Codrington from its library after agreeing to change room’s name The Barbados governor bequeathed £10,000 to All Souls College upon his death A marble statue of Codrington has stood in the library since the 18th century The graduate college has reviewed its links … Read more
A taxpayer-funded database naming and shaming 6,500 British investors and companies with links to the slave trade is to be published, it was revealed today. The Dictionary of British Slave Traders is a project supported by £1million in government funding using research by British historians and experts and will include the Duke of Chandos, Britain’s first Prime … Read more
A taxpayer-funded database naming and shaming British investors and companies with links to the slave trade, it was revealed today. The Dictionary of British Slave Traders is a project supported by £1 million in government funding using research by British historians and experts and will include the Duke of Chandos, Britain’s first Prime Minister Robert Walpole as … Read more