Samuel Pepys censored his links to slavery
26 Mar 2026 Fear of corruption allegations drove Samuel Pepys to censor official correspondence connecting the Royal Navy, slave trading companies and his own...
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Family fortunes founded on slavery: introducing the Sandbach Tinne Collection
28 Aug 2025 Records unearthed by a Cambridge PhD student expose the kinship and brutality behind one of Britain’s most powerful slave-trading dynasties, as...
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Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance
21 Sep 2023 A major new exhibition explores Cambridge's role in slavery, the people it affected and their resistance to it.
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Legacies of enslavement: report and response
22 Sep 2022 Research indicates that Cambridge had connections to the Atlantic slave trade. The University is creating a Cambridge Legacies of Enslavement Fund...
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Cambridge Legacies of Enslavement Inquiry delivers initial report
15 May 2020 The University of Cambridge Legacies of Enslavement Inquiry delivered its first report this week outlining its plan of action and initial...
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Cambridge University launches inquiry into historical links to slavery
30 Apr 2019 The University of Cambridge will conduct an in-depth academic study into ways in which it contributed to, benefited from or challenged the Atlantic...
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Before race mattered: what archives tell us about early encounters in the French colonies
16 Nov 2016 As Europe expanded its overseas colonies, fixed ideas of racial differences took hold. Historian Dr Mélanie Lamotte, whose forebears include a slave...
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Happy trafficking: how criminals profit from an iniquitous trade
04 Dec 2015 The term ‘happy trafficking’ appears deeply contradictory, but new research reveals a shocking dimension of an escalating trade. George...
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Earliest church in the tropics unearthed in former heart of Atlantic slave trade
06 Nov 2015 Remains of a church on Cabo Verde’s Santiago Island, off the West African coast, dates back to late 15th century – when Portugal first colonised the...
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Price of Britain’s Slave Trade revealed
13 Aug 2015 Letters and papers revealing in detail how human beings were priced for sale during the 18th century Transatlantic Slave Trade have been made...
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