Plymouth square named after slave trader to be renamed
A public square in Plymouth named after a 16th Century slave trader is to be renamed, the city council has said.described in the Encyclopaedia BritannicaIt comes after anti-racism protesters tore down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol on Sunday.
Plymouth City Council leader Tudor Evans said the city needed to acknowledge"some aspects of its past".Image copyrightTudor Evans said the authority stood"in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement" Mr Evans said Plymouth"cannot change its history, nor does it seek to", but could use it as"a reminder of the atrocities".
He also said the Labour-led council's thoughts were with the family and friends of George Floyd, who died last month after a white police officer in Minneapolis knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes."As a council, we have already signalled that we stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement," Mr Evans said.
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