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The Guardian reports its owner, the Scott Trust, has apologised for the role the newspaper’s founders had in the transatlantic slave trade. The Trust said it will invest millions of pounds into a decade-long programme of restorative justice. Independent academic research revealed John Edward Taylor, who founded the Guardian in 1821, had links to cotton plantations through the textile industry.
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