Should slaveowners' descendants pay? Malik Al Nasir found an unusual way to continue his research into his Guyanese ancestry and the history of enslaved people from the Sandbach Tinne dynasty.
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Family fortunes: Records unearthed by Cambridge PhD student Malik Al Nasir expose the kinship and brutality behind one of Britain’s most powerful slave-trading dynasties. Glossary
Archives - Collections of historic records.
Tranche - A portion; from the French word for a slice.
Colonised - To move to a place and attempt to take it over, at the expense of any existing people.
GDP - Short for Gross Domestic Product, the measure of all the goods and services produced inside a country.
Grotesque - Something that is comically or repulsively distorted, unnatural, or exaggerated in appearance or style; often strange in a way that evokes both fascination and discomfort.
Inhumane - Cruel, or without compassion.
Reparations - Providing payment to make amends for a wrongdoing.
Legacy - Something that comes from events in the past.