This article focuses on the prestigious postragraduate All Souls' college. The Codrington library was built on profits directly from the slave trade. (wiki 'Christopher Codrington')I heard about its history on a BBC Radio 4 programme, but the details took a long time to research, chiefly because there is no mention of this element of the story in the version of the past presented in the college's online 'history'. I interviewed the Warden who didn't seem keen on my suggestion that people should know about all the history of this institution.
The headline is skewed because the article was one half of a centrespread; a friend wrote the other half which dealt with Oxford colleges' continued unethical profiteering through investments in arms companies such as BAE Systems.
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