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the University of Glasgow has agreed to raise and spend £20m in redress after the discovery benefited from millions of pounds from The Slave trade.

It is assumed to implement The First institution in the UK of such a "programme of restorative justice".

The Money raised and spent in the next 20 years to the establishment and operation of the Glasgow-Caribbean Centre for Development Research.

It is managed in partnership with the University of the West Indies .

The centre, to be co-located in Glasgow and The Caribbean , is a sponsor of the research and an awareness of the history of slavery and its impact around The World .

Prof Sir Hilary Beckles , principal of the University of the West Indies , said that the decision of the University was a "fat, moral, historic step" in recognizing the slavery aspect of his past.

The University of Glasgow was benefiting from millions of pounds of slave trade profits

There were many of the people whose wealth came from slavery.

University bosses said that, although it never owned enslaved people or sold, or the goods produced by them, it was clear that it had received significant financial support.

overall, The Money , the it is estimated to receive as a present value of Between £16. 7m and £198m.

The University of Glasgow is one of the oldest in The World , but its new building was fully build up ends in the late 19Th Century

donations to the 1866-1880 campaign to that of the current campuses in Gilmore hill found 23 People gave that money had some financial connections in the New World slave trade.

Dr. Stephen Mullen, co-Author of The Report , "slavery, the abolition of slavery and of the University of Glasgow," said The City of Glasgow in the 18-th century, the tobacco lords and the sugar aristocracy, many of whom were alumni of the University.

He said that the University benefits from donations and bequests from people in connection with The Slave economies of Jamaica and The Caribbean .

Dr. Mullen said the research was The First report of its kind in British history, and in Glasgow, was The First University to recognize in financial income from the slavery of such magnitude.

Dr. Stephen Mullen said he was not to be expected that the global reaction to his report

He said the reaction to The Report was positive.

"I don't think I was expected the global response, but I knew it was an important, landmark piece of work," he said.

Since The Report of Glasgow's past, other universities have begun to examine whether or not they benefited from The Slave trade.

the Cambridge University has started its own investigation and think about how you might do it, in reparation for all the links on The Legacy of The Slave trade.

at the Bristol University is to examine, to advertise for a lasting scientific contribution to the history of slavery and the monitoring of their efforts to discover its historical connections with the trade.

The University of East London , chair of governors, Geoff Thompson , thinks reparations should students in the form of a £100m Fund for Sundays (Black, Asian and Ethnic minorities).

Speaking of last year, he said: "It's a question of how seriously we take to inform The Past , our future, and what we can do to help life change. "

to start, But Glasgow's decision, a program of reparation was not welcomed everywhere.

Author and academic Joanna Williams said, The Past is The Past

Author and academic Joanna Williams, said: "For me, The Number one problem with this is that it suggests the people living today bear a historical responsibility for what their ancestors did in The Past .

"[These were] really barbaric and criminal acts, but to claim that people are alive today responsible for The Sins of their ancestors, this is a step too far. "

she added: "It also shows that other people, living today, are the victims of what happened to their ancestors. It is a point that we all need comes to move on from that and say that The Past is The Past . "

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A ceremony will be held later to mark the signing of The Final agreement Between Glasgow University and the University of the West Indies .

poet Jackie Kay , the laureate third Scottish Makar, or poet, reads chapel, a specially-commissioned poem and an exhibition of views of the University of Glasgow and the connections to The Slave trade is officially opened in the University.

The Ceremony coincides with the Unesco International day of remembrance of The Slave trade.

Glasgow's abolitionist past, the donations of the people included with links to The Slave trade, £100 of Archibald Smith II at the University of Glasgow in 1870

the University of Glasgow, found the research, there had been "significant financial gifts and support of the people, derived, or occasionally much of their wealth from slavery. "

However, it noted that many of its employees "adopted a clear anti-slavery position," while the era of slavery.

they agitated against the institution of racial slavery through petitions to Parliament sent to, and received a honorary doctorate to William Wilberforce - the leader of the abolition - 1791.

The Slave trade was abolished by an act of Parliament in 1807, but slavery remained legal in British colonies until 1838.

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