{"id":20226,"date":"2019-08-24T14:01:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T14:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=20226"},"modified":"2019-08-24T14:01:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T14:01:18","slug":"glasgow-pledges-reparation-slave-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/glasgow-pledges-reparation-slave-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow pledges reparation on slave trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Upon the discovery of being a beneficiary of the slave trade, Glasgow University has made a monumental pledge of raising and spending two million pounds (<\/b>\u00a320M) <\/b>as a reparation.\u00a0<\/b>
\nAs a result, this initiative has made this institution unique because it is the first one in the United Kingdom to make such a restorative fairness approach.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Glasgow\u2019s exceptional center<\/b><\/h2>\n

The funds obtained will be instrumental in the development of <\/b>Glasgow\u2019s Caribbean Centre for Development Research<\/b><\/a> in a span of twenty (20) years. Expressly, management will be done in collaboration with the University of the West Indies.\u00a0<\/b>
\nThe center is expected to be exceptional as it will be co-located in the Caribbean and Glasgow. It will be pivotal in propelling research work as well as instigating awareness about slavery history, and the impact felt across the globe.\u00a0<\/span>
\nAccording to the University of the West Indies vice-chancellor, Prof. Sir Hillary Beckles, the decision made is both bold and morally historic because of the way the slavery attribute has been recognized.\u00a0<\/b>
\nThe plan orchestrated by Glasgow University follows research it undertook about donations it attained in the 18th and 19th centuries. As a result, the findings linked most of the wealth to persons who were beneficiaries of slavery.\u00a0<\/span>
\nNevertheless, the top management at the university stipulated that the institution did not possess enslaved persons. Moreover, it did not trade goods produced through slavery.\u00a0<\/span>
\nIt has been estimated that the university attained an estimated sum as per present-day value from sixteen million and seven hundred million pounds (<\/b>\u00a316.7M) <\/b>to one hundred and ninety-eight million pounds<\/b> (\u00a3198m).<\/b><\/p>\n

Glasgow donations built a campus<\/b><\/h2>\n

The donations received by the university between 1866 and 1880 were channeled towards building the institution\u2019s present campus located at Gilmorehill.\u00a0<\/b>
\nThe study undertaken by Glasgow University revealed that twenty-three (23) donors were financially linked to the slave trade.
\nMoreover, in the 18th century, Glasgow city was a haven of the sugar aristocracy and prominent tobacco lords who were associated with the slave trade.\u00a0<\/span>
\nGlasgow University has set a precedent on retracing back its history about how it benefitted from the slave trade and other educational institutions, such as Bristol and Cambridge Universities are following suit.\u00a0<\/span>
\nUniversities are continuously making unique and bold moves as depicted by Glasgow University. Additionally, <\/span>the University of Sheffield made one by establishing LGBT flats<\/span><\/a>, and they have countered the stereotype they initially had.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Upon the discovery of being a beneficiary of the slave trade, Glasgow University has made a monumental pledge of raising and spending two million pounds (\u00a320M) as a reparation.\u00a0 As a result, this initiative has made this institution unique because it is the first one in the United Kingdom to make such a restorative fairness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":20227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,26],"tags":[616,617,1276,1277,1510],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}