The Guardian — Britain's most prominent progressive newspaper — was founded by men who profited off the transatlantic slavery economy, researchers commissioned by the outlet found.
The newspaper's founder, John Edward Taylor, profited from imports of cotton picked by enslaved people, Cassandra Gooptar — an interdisciplinary researcher who specializes in the study of enslavement and colonialism — discovered. She also found that nine of the outlet's original investors had ties to transatlantic slavery in the early 19th Century, according to her report.
"While I am keenly aware that the names of enslaved people in both the Sea Islands and Jamaica were heavily anglicized — yet another means of control by the plantation owners — these names represent some of the only existing records of their humanity," Gooptar
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