Few things are as quintessentially English as a stately home. Tourists love them. And they're a guaranteed box office draw, as"Downton Abbey" and"Pride and Prejudice" can attest.Many of these country estates are indelibly linked to brutal legacies of slavery and colonialism.
The National Trust says it's chosen now to highlight this issue because of rising public awareness that, in the UK, hit the headlines with the divisive tearing down of"At a time when there's an enormous interest around colonialism more broadly and indeed slavery more specifically, it felt very appropriate, given that we care for so many of these places of historical interest, to commission a report that looks right across them and try to assess the extent of those colonial legacies...
The report's mention of revered wartime leader Winston Churchill in connection with contentious colonial era governance has drawn particular ire. "It's not like they're taking anything away; they're just saying that this is part of history and they're adding context to a particular artifact. It's adding something. I struggle to find a way to be offended by it."
"I think we've moved a long way from hiding things about the past to preserve some kind of propriety that no longer exists," he says. "I think we should be embarrassed about it," he says."We should be ashamed of it. Now obviously this doesn't mean you then try to forget about it, but the attitude you take to the past is the key question. If you say we shouldn't be embarrassed about it, well, what are people really saying? We should be proud of these people?"
"If you think about indirect links to slavery, our entire society is structured by that," he says." The Industrial Revolution was made possible by the profits by slavery."
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