Cotton Capital

The Guardian

Cotton Capital is a podcast series that explores how transatlantic slavery shaped the Guardian, Manchester, Britain and the world. Stemming from an investigation into the Guardian founder's own links to slavery, this ongoing series explores that history and its enduring legacies today. Search for it wherever you get your podcasts

7 Episodes

Episode 6: Reparations
5/8/2023
49:30
In the final episode of the series, Cotton Capital editor and Guardian journalist Maya Wolfe-Robinson looks at the subject of reparations. What do reparations mean for the communities and descendants of transatlantic enslavement – and what is the Guardian planning to do in its own programme of measures?
Episode 5: Resistance
5/1/2023
41:03
Guardian journalist and Cotton Capital special correspondent Lanre Bakare examines Black Mancunian history, beginning with the 1945 Pan-African Congress that took place in the city and shaped independence movements across Africa
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Episode 4: The Brazilian connection
4/24/2023
37:26
During the transatlantic slave trade, more enslaved African people were taken to Brazil than any other country. Today, more than half of Brazil’s population identify as Black and there are more Black people in Brazil than any other country except Nigeria. But the country is still grappling with deep structural racism
Episode three: The Sea Islands
4/17/2023
48:19
Journalist DeNeen L Brown travels to the Sea Islands in the US and meets the Gullah Geechee people – direct descendants of enslaved Africans who picked the distinctive Sea Island cotton prized by traders in Manchester
Episode 2: The meaning of Success
4/10/2023
50:55
Our second episode follows journalist Maya Wolfe-Robinson as she travels to Jamaica in search of the site of the former sugar plantation Success, once co-owned by the Guardian funder Sir George Philips
Episode 1: The bee and the ship
4/3/2023
45:47
The first episode of the new Guardian podcast series Cotton Capital explores the revelations that the Guardian’s founding editor, John Edward Taylor, and at least nine of his 11 backers, had links to slavery, principally through the textile industry
Coming soon: Cotton Capital – a new podcast from the Guardian
3/28/2023
0:49
This new six-part series explores how transatlantic slavery shaped the Guardian, Manchester, Britain and the world. Stemming from an investigation into the Guardian founders’ own links to slavery, this ongoing series explores that history and its enduring legacies today. Search ‘Cotton Capital’ wherever you get your podcasts

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Cotton Capital

The Guardian

7 Episodes

Episode 6: Reparations

Episode 5: Resistance

Episode 4: The Brazilian connection

Episode three: The Sea Islands

Episode 2: The meaning of Success

Episode 1: The bee and the ship

Coming soon: Cotton Capital – a new podcast from the Guardian