How The Guardian newspaper was founded by a cotton merchant who profited off slavery

The Guardian newspaper was founded as the Manchester Guardian in 1821 by cotton merchant John Edward Taylor (pictured) (1791-1844) after seeing the Peterloo Massacre in 1819.

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