In 1895 on #ThisDayInHistory a statue of #SlaveTrader #EdwardColston was unveiled in #Bristol, UK. Despite Colston's ownership of the #RoyalAfricanCompany, which enslaved about 100,000 West Africans, it stayed there until #AntiRacist activists dumped it in the harbour in 2020.

'A significant proportion of #Colston's wealth came directly or indirectly from the slave trade

In 1680, he became an official of the #RoyalAfricanCompany, which at the time held the 'monopoly in Britain on #slavetrading'

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