On 16 September 2018, the University of Glasgow released the report ‘Slavery, Abolition and the University of Glasgow’. This acknowledged that slave-owners, merchants and planters with connections to New World slavery – and their descendants – donated capital between 1697 and 1937 that influenced the development of the institution. In producing this report, the institution became the first British university to declare historical income derived from transatlantic slavery. In response, a nine-point programme reported as reparative justice was launched, the first British university to launch a project on such a scale. This article traces both the methodological approach undertaken in the study and the historical evidence related to the University of Glasgow. This provides insights into the process of collecting and analysing the evidence on which the report and strategy was based. Current understandings about British universities and transatlantic slavery are shaped by the institutional relationship with owners of enslaved people. This article underlines the importance of merchant capital – in this case, mainly via West India commerce – to the development of one institution.

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英国大学和跨大西洋奴隶制：格拉斯哥大学案例

2018 年 9 月 16 日，格拉斯哥大学发布了“奴隶制、废除和格拉斯哥大学”报告。这承认与新世界奴隶制有联系的奴隶主、商人和种植园主及其后代在 1697 年至 1937 年间捐赠了影响该机构发展的资金。在编写这份报告时，该机构成为第一所宣布来自跨大西洋奴隶制的历史收入的英国大学。作为回应，启动了一项报告为补偿性司法的九点计划，这是第一所启动如此规模项目的英国大学。本文追溯了研究中采用的方法论方法以及与格拉斯哥大学相关的历史证据。这为收集和分析报告和战略所依据的证据的过程提供了见解。当前对英国大学和跨大西洋奴隶制的理解是由与奴隶主的制度关系所塑造的。本文强调了商业资本——在这种情况下，主要是通过西印度商业——对一个机构的发展的重要性。