This month an exhibition has opened at M Shed Museum in Bristol: The Colston Statue: What Next? It calls to mind an image from last summer, which encapsulated the UK’s Black Lives Matter protests: the statue of a slave trader, bound with rope, tumbling from its podium, dragged through the streets of Bristol and then sent toppling from the edge of the city into the waters of the Avon.
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This month an exhibition has opened at M Shed Museum in Bristol: The Colston Statue: What Next? It calls to mind an image from last summer, which encapsulated the UK’s Black Lives Matter protests: the statue of a slave trader, bound with rope, tumbling from its podium, dragged through the streets of Bristol and then sent toppling from the edge of the city into the waters of the Avon.