Brexit Britain is forced to confront its inglorious past


The boarded up statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square in central London. — AFP

HAD he been alive, Edward Colston would surely have recognised the rage of the crods that pulled down his statue in his home city of Bristol and dumped it into the harbor.

Born in 1636 into an age of revolution, Colston lived through three civil wars and the execution of King Charles I before he became a merchant and made his fortune from the burgeoning slave trade.

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