Manchester-based composer creates requiem to honour enslaved Africans

The Guardian World Sunday 11 October 2026, 06:00 UTC By Aamna Mohdin Communty affairs correspondent 1 min read

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David Önaç uses insurance documents for work funded by Lloyd’s of London after research uncovered its slavery links A centuries-old insurance document detailing the trafficking of enslaved Africans began with the words: “In the name of God, Amen.”For Dr Errol Francis, the artistic director and chief executive of the arts and heritage charity Culture&, the contradiction was striking: an invocation of God in a document that treated human beings as cargo.

David Önaç uses insurance documents for work funded by Lloyd’s of London after research uncovered its slavery links

A centuries-old insurance document detailing the trafficking of enslaved Africans began with the words: “In the name of God, Amen.”

For Dr Errol Francis, the artistic director and chief executive of the arts and heritage charity Culture&, the contradiction was striking: an invocation of God in a document that treated human beings as cargo.

Manchester (LOCATION) Africans (ORG) David Önaç (PERSON) Lloyd’s of London (ORG) Errol Francis (PERSON)

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