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The slaver who stayed put
Publisher |
Tortoise Media
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
News
News Commentary
Politics
Publication Date |
Aug 13, 2020
Episode Duration |
00:31:11
The story of the toppling of Edward Colston's statue in Bristol became a prominent chapter in the global response to the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests. Those events were the reasons the statue came down, but the more intriguing question is why it stayed up for so long. Why did a monument to a prominent slave trader remain standing for decades in spite of a local campaign to have it moved to a museum?

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