Combined with a public engagement project, the free exhibition aims to raise public understanding of how transatlantic slavery shaped the city’s growth, the UK’s economic development and global capitalism, exploring the continued impact of the trade in human beings and cotton on lives today.
The role transatlantic enslavement played in shaping Manchester is at the heart of a new exhibition developed in partnership by the Guardian and the city’s Science and Industry Museum.
Transatlantic slavery’s role in shaping Manchester to be explored in exhibition Joint project between Guardian and city’s Science and Industry Museum will open in early 2027.
Produced by the Science and Industry Museum and the The Scott Trust Legacies of Enslavement programme, it will be developed with African-descendant and diaspora communities through local and global collaborations and features new research.
Katharine Viner, the editor-in-chief of Guardian News & Media, said it was a “fundamental part” of the restorative justice programme launched in response to the newspaper’s 19th-century founders’ connections to transatlantic enslavement.
