Letters: Graham Gosling highlights the achievements of former students in ending the slave trade, Eric Banks says the historic plight of the working classes should also be studied, Michael Cross has a plan for profits, while Angela Sherlock takes issue with the ‘pilgrim fathers’ story
It may well turn out that in the past Cambridge University profited from colonial slavery , but it can also be argued that the university was in fact instrumental in ending the slave trade.
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