Tag: History
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History isn’t being destroyed, it’s being discovered
In 1895, 174 years after his death, a statue of mass-murdering slave-trader, Edward Colston, was erected in the centre of Bristol to commemorate his blood-fuelled philanthropy. 125 years later, this monument was torn down by anti-racism protesters, rolled towards the Bristol harbour, and drowned in the river Avon. Ever since then, the Black Lives Matter…