Cotton Capital Magazine

In 2020 the Scott Trust commissioned an academic review to examine possible links between transatlantic slavery and the Manchester Guardian’s founders. Cotton Capital reports on how transatlantic slavery and its enduring legacies shaped Manchester, Britain and the world. For the identity we commissioned cotton tapestries of the first Manchester Guardian from 1821, tactile representations of the basis of the funders’ wealth. By unravelling these we reveal the cotton for which millions of Africans were transported and enslaved. Fraying the accepted narrative so we can create a fuller one.