Not Set in Stone: Contesting Statues of Empire and Slavery
Channel: CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity
Date: 2021-11-08

What should we do about statues that celebrate Empire and the slave trade? Many public statues in Britain celebrate men whose wealth came from the slave trade. Does this matter? What if the person also gave part of their wealth to charity? And what do statues really teach us about history?

Based on our 'Contested Statues' research (http://https://www.ethnicity.ac.uk/research/projects/contesting-statues/) this video explains some of the approaches taken to dealing with slave trader statues. We argue that history is not, in fact, 'set in stone' but ripe for continual change.