Toppled Statue of Slave Trader Goes On View in Bristol, Generating Controversy

The display of a toppled statue of a 17th-century slave trader at a Bristol museum has renewed controversy over monuments to problematic figures in the United Kingdom. The statue in question, a monument to Edward Colston, was toppled and thrown into a harbor last summer by Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol, where it had been on public view since 1895. It has now gone on view at the M Shed museum, an institution dedicated to the city’s history.
According to a report by the Guardian,