Student says he has been pressured to remove a reference to Antoinette Sandbach, a descendant of a slave merchant

The former Tory MP Antoinette Sandbach has threatened the University of Cambridge with legal action after a historian named her as a descendant of merchants who enslaved his ancestors.

Malik Al Nasir, a third-year PhD history student at St Catharine’s College, has spent the past 20 years exploring his own family’s history of slavery and the wealth that was built from those who enslaved them.

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