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A statue of slave trader Edward Colston that was torn down by Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol will be put on public display for people to decide its long-term future. The bronze memorial was pulled from its plinth last June in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in the US, as demonstrators in the UK sought racial equality and a reckoning with Britain’s imperial history. The statue of the 17th-century merchant who made part of his...

Bristol City Council via Twitter 29 May 2021 The statue of 17th-century Bristol philanthropist Edward Colston, which was torn down from its plinth, vandalised, and thrown into the harbour by an angry mob of Black Lives Matter protesters in June 2020 over his links to slavery, will be put in a museum alongside paraphernalia linked to the Marxist protest movement. The statue was erected in the port city of Bristol in 1895 to commemorate the philanthropy of Colston, who died in 1721. The successfu...

Temporary exhibition will launch with survey to discover what people think should happen next to statue

Felled Colston statue to go on display in Bristol next month The bike tyre that emerged with the statue from Bristol harbour will form part of the display Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now The Edward Colston statue felled in Bristol last year will go on display at the M Shed museum next month. The bronze figure of the 17th century slave trader was toppled during a Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol city centre on June 7, 2020. And it will go on display at the museum on Pr...

THE toppled statue of slave trader Edward Colston is to go on public display in Bristol.

The memorial to Edward Colston who died in 1721 was pulled down from its plinth and rolled into a dock last year.