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t. e. Statue of slave trader Edward Colston, formerly in The Centre, Bristol, erected in 1895, toppled in 2020. Bristol, a port city in south-west England, was involved in the transatlantic slave trade. Bristol's part in the trade was prominent in the 17th and 18th centuries as the city's merchants used their position to gain involvement.
9 de sept. de 2018 · New life for historic theatre as it faces up to ‘slave trade’ past. Bristol’s Old Vic confronts its controversial 250-year-old past on its relaunch after a £25m facelift. Vanessa Thorpe...
Many of the city’s public buildings, educational and economic institutions (such as the Theatre Royal, Colston’s School, the Old Bank and the tobacco and sugar industries), owe their origins to the wealth created by the trade in enslaved Africans and slave-produced commodities.
5 de feb. de 2022 · Tom Wall. Sat 5 Feb 2022 08.00 EST. Bristol Old Vic’s outgoing artistic director Tom Morris has defended his decision to publicly highlight the slave trade riches that financed the...
The creation of The Old Bank shows how Bristol’s relationship with the slave trade benefited the city and the country in a multitude of ways, and displaying how the ripple effect of slavery touched almost every corner of Bristol’s society.
16 de mar. de 2007 · The first open meeting in Bristol on the abolition of the slave trade occurred in 1788, in the medieval Guild Hall (now demolished), Broad Street. A petition was drawn up there, which some...
Bristol’s 16th Century Slave Traders: The Spanish Connection - Bristol Museums Collections. Heather Dalton. Honorary Research Fellow, University of Melbourne & Member of the Cabot Project, University of Bristol. Was Bristol hero John Cabot really a slave trader?
