The slaver who stayed put
- Author
- Alice Sandelson
- Published
- Thu 13 Aug 2020
- Episode Link
- https://play.acast.com/s/the-tortoise-podcast/theslaverwhostayedput
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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