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Colston's statue being invisible at the bottom of a river doesn't really help people learn from the mistakes of those times.
Not if you make a big deal of it, actually make a plaque to explain what happen to the statue and another plaque near where it went overboard to symbolised what happen to the slaves during the voyager.
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The thing is you don't need a statue to learn about a historical figure. There's no need to keep it for any reason. Statues are about reverence and respect.
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Why waste money and time dredging it up. It’s fine where it is.
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Colston's statue being invisible at the bottom of a river doesn't really help people learn from the mistakes of those times
I think the act of toppling it and chucking it in the harbour does exactly that
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Just do a google image search for: underwater slave statue
that's cool!
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The statue is probably best off in a museum where it can be studied for what it is, a sad reflection on how attitudes change over centuries and things that were legally acceptable (or at least the authorities turned a blind eye to the atrocities that were so obviously going on) hundreds of years ago are now (and have been for many years) considered abhorrent.
In the future people may be looking back at the behaviour of the mega-wealthy and wondering how the fuck society/Governments let them take so much of the pie.
Anyway, there are much better underwater memorials/statues regarding the slave trade (and immigration).
Just do a google image search for: underwater slave statue
Colston's statue being invisible at the bottom of a river doesn't really help people learn from the mistakes of those times.