University of Glasgow benefited from the Slave Trade

The BBC has an interesting article online about how the University of Glasgow (https://www.gla.ac.uk) benefited form the Slave Trade, thanks to donations it received in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The amount received in today's money is estimated to be between £16.7m and £198m in value. As a consequence, the university is planning to launch a "reparative justice programme".

The University's Principal, Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli said: "Although the university never owned enslaved people or traded in the goods they produced, it is now clear we received significant financial support from people whose wealth came from slavery. The university deeply regrets this association with historical slavery which clashes with our proud history of support for the abolition of both the slave trade and slavery itself."

For more on the story visit https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-45539706

For resources on Scotland and the slaver trade at the National Library of Scotland, see https://www.nls.uk/collections/topics/slavery.

Chris

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