Historian David Olusoga says the memorial, on display graffitied and supine, is now telling a story
The statue of the slave trader Edward Colston, which now lies damaged and daubed with graffiti on a museum stand, has been transformed into the most important artefact of Britain’s relationship with its role in the Atlantic slave trade, the historian David Olusoga has said.
As the 19th-century bronze memorial went on display in Bristol, almost a year since it was dragged from its plinth by Black Lives Matter protesters and hurled into Bristol harbour, Prof Olusoga said it had become “a far more important and potent historical artefact”.
