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Statues of slavers will be removed from City of London's Guildhall The City will also make changes to its schools' curriculums 12:40, 22 JAN 2021 (Left) A statue of Sir John Cass on the wall of the Sir John Cass Foundation; (right) the statue of William Beckford in the City of London's Guildhall (Image: Tolga Akmen/Getty Images; Wikimedia) Statues of two historic figures with links to the slave trade will be removed from the historic Guildhall in the City of London. The decision was taken by councillors on January 21 that the statues of Sir John Cass and William Beckford will be relocated fro...

STATUES of politicians William Beckford and Sir John Cass will be removed from central London in light of their profiting from slavery. The City of London Corporation voted on Thursday to re-site the Guildhall statues, saying they symbolise “a stain on our history.” The statue of Beckford, twice lord mayor of London in the late 1700s who profited from plantations in Jamaica where he enslaved African people, will be moved and replaced with new artwork. The statue of Cass, a merchant at the turn of the 17th century, MP and so-called philanthropist who also profited from slavery, ...

The Government could intervene to stop the City of London Corporation's plans to topple statues of prominent figures William Beckford and Sir John Cass - after it went against its policy to retain historical monuments. Yesterday the corporation declared it would remove the two huge sculptures over the two men's historic links to the slave trade following a vote on recommendations from their Tackling Racism Taskforce. But the announcement came to a surprise to senior Government figures, including Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, who believe statues should be kept to 'learn from the past'. ...

The local authority that runs London’s historic financial district is to remove the statues of two British colonial-era politicians over their links to the slave trade. The City of London Corporation voted on Thursday to remove the statues of two 17th and 18th-century figures because they had accrued wealth through the slave trade. The monuments to William Beckford, a former London mayor who drew his wealth from plantations in Jamaica that used slave labour, and John Cass, a member of Parliament and important figure in the Royal Africa Company that facilitated the transatlantic slave trade,...

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