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    The statue of Edward Colston is a bronze statue of Bristol-born merchant and trans-Atlantic slave trader Edward Colston (1636–1721). It was created in...
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    Edward Colston (2 November 1636 – 11 October 1721) was an English merchant, slave trader, philanthropist, and Tory Member of Parliament. Colston followed...
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    Marvin Rees (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    Bristol, protestors forcibly removed the statue of Edward Colston and dropped it into the harbour. The statue was recovered from the harbour by Bristol...
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  • the statue of Edward Colston, which was completed in 1895 – 170 years after Colston's death. With growing awareness in the late 20th century of his involvement...
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  • as the Colston four, was a British court case surrounding the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston, involving four defendants accused of criminal...
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  • previous month. The statue was removed by Bristol City Council the day after it was installed. On 7 June 2020 the statue of Edward Colston, a prominent 17th-...
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    Beacon Tower (redirect from Colston Tower)
    protests in the United Kingdom. Four days earlier, the nearby statue of Edward Colston had been pulled down and thrown into Bristol Harbour. On 26 November...
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    The Centre, Bristol (category History of Bristol)
    bronze statue by James Havard Thomas of MP Edmund Burke (1894) and had a statue of Edward Colston (1895, by John Cassidy). On 7 June 2020, the statue of Colston...
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  • a British Black Lives Matter activist from Bristol. After the statue of Edward Colston was pushed into Bristol Harbour, Reid stood on the empty plinth...
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    Heritage List for England record for the statue of Edward Colston which until June 2020 stood nearby gives as one of its reasons for listing the "Group value...
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  • Thomas J. Price (category Alumni of Chelsea College of Arts)
    UK. Price wrote in TIME about the legacy of colonial monuments and the removal of the statue of Edward Colston. Within the article, Price noted "White...
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    Manchester Sir Benjamin Alfred Dobson statue, Bolton Statue of Edward Colston, Bristol Statue of Edward VII, Manchester Statue of Enriqueta Rylands, John Rylands...
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    During a Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol, the city center statue of Edward Colston, a late 17th early 18th-century philanthropist, politician and...
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    with the end of royal power in the Glorious Revolution, and it ceased issuing letters of marque. Edward Colston transferred a large segment of his original...
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    Marc Quinn (redirect from Siren (statue))
    "Statue of protester appears on Colston plinth". BBC News. 15 July 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2020. "Edward Colston statue replaced by sculpture of Black...
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    February 5, 2020. Retrieved June 21, 2020. Historic England. "Statue of Edward Colston (1202137)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved August...
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  • Death to 2020 (category Media depictions of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom)
    John's Church and protesters removing the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol, England. On the topic of the pandemic, characters comment on the 2020...
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    protesters topple a Statue of Edward Colston in Bristol, whilst also defacing a number of statues across the country. That evening the statue of Robert Milligan...
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    down a statue of Edward Colston was in Bristol during the Black Lives Matter protests. Far-right group Britain First called for the statue of Mandela...
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    Nadia Whittome (category Alumni of the University of Nottingham)
    In response to the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston on 7 June 2020, Whittome tweeted "I celebrate these acts of resistance" and called for "a...
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    this matter by the Society of Merchant Venturers. On 6 November 2020, after the toppling of the Statue of Edward Colston in Bristol and a consultation...
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  • Siddique, Haroon (7 June 2020). "BLM protesters topple statue of Bristol slave trader Edward Colston". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 7 June...
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    monuments defaced in night of protests". The Hill. June 1, 2020. Diver, Tony (June 7, 2020). "Statue of slave trader Edward Colston pulled down and thrown...
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    Tom Hunt (politician) (category Alumni of the University of Manchester)
    January 2022, Hunt reacted to the clearing of the four people charged with the toppling of the Statue of Edward Colston by telling The Daily Telegraph: "If you've...
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    of the statue of Edward Colston due to Colston's involvement in the slave trade. The toppling of Colston's statue also led to calls for other statues...
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    Faiza Shaheen (category Academics of the London School of Economics)
    energy. She has been reported as thanking those who toppled the statue of Edward Colston, a 17th century slave trader in Bristol, during the 2020 Black...
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    Scipio Africanus (slave) (category Date of birth unknown)
    the pulling down of the statue of Edward Colston by Black Lives Matter protestors, as well as the proposed removal of the gravestone of music hall blackface...
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    in 2015. Hundreds of protestors again demanded its removal in June 2020, in the wake of the removal of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol a few days...
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    Bandeirantes (category Portuguese explorers of South America)
    practice of glorifying slave traders. Calls to take down statues were again intensified with Britain's removal of a statue of Edward Colston on June 7...
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    graffiti off, protesters shouted abuse at them for doing so. The statue of Edward Colston in The Centre, Bristol, was toppled and thrown into Bristol Harbour...
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