Slavery plaque to be removed from Edinburgh statue
The U-turn follows a campaign by descendants of Henry Dundas who disagreed with the wording of the plaque, which said that Dundas was "instrumental in deferring the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade".
They lodged a planning application with the City of Edinburgh Council which was approved by councillors on Wednesday. Chas Booth, Edinburgh Greens spokesperson on planning, said there were no valid planning reasons to refuse the application to remove the plaque. The wording of the plaque was agreed in 2020 by city councillors, heritage experts and Professor Sir Geoff Palmer, who led a review of Edinburgh's links with slavery and colonialism.A brass plate was added to the structure in 2021 to detail links to slavery
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