Posted on 03/31/2022 6:12:26 AM PDT by shadowlands1960
- A statue to famed abolitionist David Livingstone was identified as 'problematic.'
- The statue was among several monuments highlighted in a Glasgow report.
- Glasgow City Council commissioned the report to help it take note of monuments in the Scottish city which has associations with the slave trade.
A monument to a famous abolitionist could be removed due to an alleged connection to the slave trade.
A statue to David Livingstone, the anti-slavery missionary and explorer, in Glasgow was identified in a 119-page report identifying a series of sites in Glasgow with links to slavery.
The monument was identified due to Livingstone's 'defence' of cotton masters having worked in a cotton mill from age 10 which had 'likely' used West Indian cotton.
Livingstone condemned slavery as the ‘greatest meanness ever perpetrated’ but regarded cotton masters as benevolent and paternalistic.
The Glasgow Slavery Audit, commissioned by the council and led by historian Dr Stephen Mullen of Glasgow University, focused on individuals from the city and elsewhere involved in Atlantic slavery between 1603 and 1838.
It was commissioned in September 2019. a year before the Black Lives Matter resurgence in June 2020 which saw the statue of slaver Edward Colston in Bristol torn down and dumped in Bristol Harbour by activists.
Some of the individuals shaped the city, while others are memorialised in eight statues erected around Glasgow.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Irony...people wanting to pull down statues of abolitionists are wearing clothes made in China.
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At this point all these headlines should read “Whitey’s Statue to be Removed, Because of Whiteness”
All this crap about monuments is itself extremely racist.
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