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Cassandra Gooptar

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Dr Cassandra Gooptar is an interdisciplinary researcher from Trinidad and Tobago whose main focus of research involves themes of slavery, colonialism and reparative justice

August 2023

  • Cotton Capital Podcast artwork. 5000x3000px, with title, with logo

    Today in Focus
    Cotton Capital: The Sea Islands – episode 3

    Revisited: In the third episode in the series, journalist DeNeen L Brown travels to the Sea Islands in the US and meets the Gullah Geechee people – direct descendants of enslaved Africans who picked the distinctive Sea Island cotton prized by traders in Manchester
    Podcast48:21
  • Cotton Capital Podcast artwork. 5000x3000px, with title, with logo

    Today in Focus
    Cotton Capital: The meaning of Success – episode 2

    Revisited: The second episode in the series follows journalist Maya Wolfe-Robinson as she travels to Jamaica in search of the site of the former sugar plantation Success, once co-owned by the Guardian funder Sir George Philips
    Podcast50:58
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    Today in Focus
    Cotton Capital: The bee and the ship – episode 1

    Revisited: The first episode in the Cotton Capital series explores the revelations that the Guardian’s founding editor, John Edward Taylor, and at least nine of his 11 backers had links to slavery, principally through the textile industry
    Podcast46:41

April 2023

  • Cotton Capital Podcast artwork. 5000x3000px, with title, with logo

    Cotton Capital
    Episode 3: The Sea Islands – podcast

    DeNeen L Brown travels to the Sea Islands and meets the Gullah Geechee people – descendants of enslaved Africans who picked cotton prized by traders in Manchester
    Podcast48:19
  • Manchester Gdn Scott Trust report

    Cotton Capital
    Episode 2: The meaning of Success – podcast

    Our second episode follows journalist Maya Wolfe-Robinson as she travels to Jamaica in search of the site of the former sugar plantation Success, once co-owned by the Guardian funder Sir George Philips
    Podcast50:55

    • Full Story
      Cotton Capital: the bee and the ship – examining the Guardian’s links to slavery

      Podcast46:20

    • Cotton Capital
      Episode 1: The bee and the ship – podcast

      Podcast45:47

    • Today in Focus
      Cotton Capital: the bee and the ship – examining the Guardian’s links to slavery

      Podcast46:29

March 2023

  • TRAIL Globe

    Cotton Capital: a special investigation 2023
    The slave trade and the deep south: accounting for the Cotton capital’s human cost

  • TRAIL image for Cassandra Goopta's COTTON CAPITAL piece

    Cotton Capital: a special investigation 2023
    The cotton thread: how we uncovered the Guardian founders’ links to slavery

  • Names of people coming into focus

    Cotton Capital: a special investigation 2023
    In memoriam: the enslaved people linked to the Guardian

  • The historians Prof David Olusoga and Dr Cassandra Gooptar reveal how the Manchester Guardian’s 19th-century founders had connections to transatlantic enslavement and how a ‘trick of history’ has obscured our understanding of the links between slavery and Britain’s Industrial Revolution

    Cotton Capital: a special investigation 2023
    David Olusoga on the Guardian’s links to slavery: ‘That reality can’t be negotiated with’ - video

    Video7:32
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