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Cambridge sets up £1.5m fund after report into slave trade links

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Research centre proposed after inquiry finds “significant” connections with slavery

A £1.5 million pot to help fund research into the legacies of slavery will be set up by the University of Cambridge after a report found it was “implicated in enslavement”.

The university’s two-year inquiry into its links with slavery, carried out by the internal Advisory Group on the Legacies of Enslavement, published its findings on 22 September.

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