David Önaç uses insurance documents for work funded by Lloyd’s of London after research uncovered its slavery links
A centuries-old insurance document detailing the trafficking of enslaved Africans began with the words: “In the name of God, Amen.”
For Dr Errol Francis, the artistic director and chief executive of the arts and heritage charity Culture&, the contradiction was striking: an invocation of God in a document that treated human beings as cargo.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oct/11/manchester-based-composer-creates-requiem-to-honour-enslaved-africans
Author : Aamna Mohdin Communty affairs correspondent
Publish date : 2026-10-11 06:00:00
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