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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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Agreed. While I'd like it to have been done differently, the end result of what I'd like to see can easily be achieved with keeping the plinth plus putting a plaque and a sign next to the harbour. You can interlink the two and use it to promote or create a larger historic walk that deals with the city's history.
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.