Cardinal Newman: pro-slavery views of prominent 19th-century cleric raise questions about his educational legacy

By Chris Evans, Professor of History, University of South Wales

One of the comforting stories the British told themselves in the 19th and 20th centuries was that they were implacably opposed to slavery.

Britons had decided “that the disgrace of slavery should not be suffered to remain part of our national system”, or so Lord Stanley, the colonial secretary at the moment of abolition, maintained. It was a claim willingly accepted by later generations. The 1833 Act that abolished slavery in Britain’s Atlantic empire reflected the undivided national…

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