5/27/2023 0 Comments Royal elite book 1![]() ![]() The notorious slave trader Edward Colston founded schools in Bristol. “Those questions get to the fundamental issue of whether the private school system should exist, and not only because of the inequality it produces in the UK but also the inequality and violence it has been implicated in internationally,” Gamsu said. Sol Gamsu, assistant professor at Durham university’s sociology department and lead author of the research, said it posed “serious questions” for private schools over their reputation and historical legacies. ![]() The research comes as the finances of independent schools in England are the centre of a debate over Labour plans to add VAT to school fees and strip them of charitable status. ![]() Most of the schools identified are private. The study by academics at Durham and Cambridge universities is the first to comprehensively draw together detailed links between British enslavers and investors with the schools they founded or supported using wealth derived from slavery. In some cases, former students received significant compensation from the British government after abolition, suggesting that their families – who paid their school fees – were heavily involved in the slave trade. ![]()
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