‘Women were currency’: How reparatory justice is spotlighting gender-based violence

In this month’s newsletter: placing Black women and girls at the forefront, celebrating the Manchester experience through Vimto and preserving Gullah Geechee land • Don’t get Cotton Capital delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Sarah, Betty, Doll, Nan – just a few of the names commonly given to enslaved African women during the transatlantic slave trade. We know that they would have suffered unspeakable sexual violence. But now that history is being given greater prominence. Continue reading...

By Angela Foster