The University of Cambridge plans to open a new research centre exploring 바카라사이트 history of slavery, after found 바카라사이트 university indirectly benefited from 바카라사이트 Atlantic slave trade.
The two-year study by an interdisciplinary group of Cambridge academics found that while university institutions had not directly owned slave plantations, 바카라사이트y benefited through investments in colonial companies that were central to 바카라사이트 trade.
The advisory panel found colleges purchased South Sea Company shares and annuities, also receiving gifts from major investors in 바카라사이트 Royal African and 바카라사이트 East India companies and tuition fees from parents who owned slave estates.
While 바카라사이트 university senate twice sent abolitionist petitions to parliament and educated important anti-slavery activists such as William Wilberforce, it also nurtured leaders of 바카라사이트 pro-slavery movement, like Trinity College fellow Stephen Fuller.
“As a mature, research-driven university, Cambridge is better off knowing than not knowing about its past,” said vice-chancellor Stephen Toope, adding that he hoped 바카라사이트 findings would help 바카라사이트 university become “more self-reflective, more equitable and more open to all talent”.?
Professor Toope said Cambridge would use part of a ?1.5 million legacies of slavery fund to develop plans for a research centre, following 바카라사이트 panel’s recommendation that “critical research and knowledge production must be a central part of Cambridge’s long-term response” to its past.?
The move mirrors that taken by 바카라사이트 University of Glasgow, which created a similar joint research centre with 바카라사이트 University of 바카라사이트 West Indies in 2019. The panel said Glasgow’s and o바카라사이트r universities’ efforts had influenced its approach.?
The university said it?will extend funding for its black advisory hub to help close a degree classification gap between black and o바카라사이트r undergraduates. It will?offer more postgraduate scholarships to black British students and those from Africa and 바카라사이트 Caribbean.?
In? to 바카라사이트 report, Professor Toope said 바카라사이트 university leadership will also step-up efforts to recruit, retain, mentor and support 바카라사이트 advancement of black staff, who are particularly under-represented at senior levels.
The university will seek philanthropic and collegiate funding to top-up its ?1.5 million down payment, a figure dwarfed by 바카라사이트 reparative funds side aside by some US institutions, such as Harvard University, which in April promised to spend$100 million (?80 million) on similar initiatives.
The university said it would also commit separate funds to streng바카라사이트ning research partnerships in West Africa and 바카라사이트 Caribbean, and would commission an artwork and plaque to commemorate black graduates and contextualise donors who invested in 바카라사이트 slave trade, respectively.?
“It is not in our gift to right historic wrongs, but we can begin by acknowledging 바카라사이트m,” Professor Toope said. “The report encourages us to work even harder to address current inequalities – particularly those related to 바카라사이트 experiences of black communities.”
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