OTD in 2020 the statue of Edward Colston was toppled in Bristol as part of the Black Lives Matter protests.
From the HW archives Madge Dresser revisits the statue's particular history.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/slavery/cols...
Madge Dresser argues that statues of slave traders, such as Edward Colston, often served complex local and civic objectives, which were inextricable from historical processes which silenced the voices...
