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Toggle Sidebar All Souls College change Codrington Library name, but keep statue of slaveholder [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Amelia Wood (Cherwell) writes about attempts by All Souls College (Oxford, England) to acknowledge that Christopher Codrington’s wealth was derived as a product of enslaved people’s work in the Caribbean, while not removing his statue from the Codrington Library. The College’s Governing Body announced that there will be a name change for the library. A plaque at the library now reads “In memory of those who worked in sl...

A statue of Christopher Codrington by Henry Cheere is located in the library at All Souls in Oxford Oxford University’s All Souls College has dropped the name Christopher Codrington from its library, but has refused to remove its controversial statue of the Barbados-born slave owner, sparking condemnation from campaigners. In a statement published at the end of last year, but largely unreported, the college said that, “rather than seek to remove [the statue] the College will investigate further forms of memorialisation and contextualisation within the library, which will draw ...