Episode 43
The slaver who stayed put
Why did Edward Colston's statue stand for so long in Bristol?
The Slow Newscast · Alice Sandelson
August 13, 202031m 11s
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Show Notes
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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