The bronze likeness of Edward Colston was pulled from its pedestal and dumped in Bristol harbor a year ago, sparking a nationwide debate about which historical figures deserve commemoration and about Britain's slave-trading history. City workers hauled the statue out of the water and have kept it in storage ever since.
Responses will go to the We Are Bristol History Commission, which was set up after the protest. Options include removing the statue from public view, creating a museum or exhibition about the trans-Atlantic slave trade and restoring the statue to its plinth in the center of the city. "We're using this opportunity to find out what local people think because we have to live in this city together," commission member Shawn Sobers, an associate professor at the University of the West of England, said.
The statue's felling was part of a worldwide reckoning with racism and slavery sparked by the death of a Black American man, George Floyd, at the hands of police in Minneapolis in May 2020.
So now there never was a slave trade in the U.K.?
Who sold European slaves?
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