After the Colston statue was removed, residents gathered around its empty plinth with placards and messages. The space became an improvised memorial and forum for debate about slavery, resistance and the city’s colonial wealth. Community archiving preserved these acts of remembrance and protest.
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After the Colston statue was removed, residents gathered around its empty plinth with placards and messages. The space became an improvised memorial and forum for debate about slavery, resistance and the city’s colonial wealth. Community archiving preserved these acts of remembrance and protest.
Bristol’s empty plinth becomes a site of Black public memory. After the Colston statue was removed, residents gathered around its empty plinth with placards and messages.
After the Colston statue was removed, residents gathered around its empty plinth with placards and messages. The space became an improvised memorial and forum for debate about slavery, resistance and the city’s colonial wealth. Community archiving preserved these acts of remembrance and protest.