Name removed from tower just hours after slaver's likeness was pulled from River Avon to be memorialised in museum
, who profited from the west African slave trade before donating his wealth to the city, became part of an international conversation about the legacies of racism in modern society when protestors pulled a statue commemorating him from its plinth and rolled it through the city’s streets.
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