Leeds city council is probing the local sweet treat parkin so it can warn children of its links to the slave trade in primary school teaching material.
The authority is looking into how the traditional ginger cake from Northern England historically includes ingredients, such as sugar, that are gained through the triangular slave trade , according to a report.
It will also review how local products such as Yorkshire Tea are reliant on global trade in research being carried out following the Black Lives Matter movement.
Pupils in Leeds will then be able to use the information to understand how parts of the recipes would have been sourced from around the Empire and would have involved the labour of enslaved people .
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