Some buildings, including the original Mitchell Library, are already known to have been built with slavery fortunes

Some of Glasgow’s best-known streets and landmarks could be renamed as a result of a new investigation into how black slave labour helped the city flourish as Britain’s second city of the empire.

Glasgow city council has commissioned the first study of its kind by a local authority in the UK to examine how the selling of slaves involved in the tobacco, sugar and cotton trade transformed the city’s fortunes and features.

The findings of the investigation will lead to a consultation with the public that could result in some of the most controversial names associated with slave labour being removed from buildings and streets in the Merchant City.

There is also a possibility that one of Glasgow’s most prominent landmarks, the Gallery of Modern