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Cotton Capital

Cotton Capital

By: The Guardian
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 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© 2025 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved World
Episodes
  • Bonus episode: Searching for the spirit of Pan-Africanism

    Bonus episode: Searching for the spirit of Pan-Africanism
    Oct 31 2025
    In this bonus episode, the Guardian journalist Chris Osuh explores whether we are living through a Pan-African moment 80 years on from Manchester’s groundbreaking 1945 Pan-African Congress ‘A sense of freedom’: 80 years on from the Pan-African Congress in Manchester
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    47 mins
  • Episode 6: Reparations

    Episode 6: Reparations
    May 8 2023
    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?
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    50 mins
  • Episode 5: Resistance

    Episode 5: Resistance
    May 1 2023
    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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    41 mins
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