Factbox: How have British universities grappled with links to the slave trade?


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  • Tuesday, 30 Apr 2019

FILE PHOTO: People walk into the quadrant of Clare College at Cambridge University in eastern England October 23, 2010. REUTERS/Paul Hackett/File Photo

(Reuters) - The University of Cambridge will conduct a two-year academic study of how much it benefited from the Atlantic slave trade and whether its scholars reinforced race-based thinking during Britain's colonial era.

Following is what some major British universities have done so far.

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