Posted on 03/20/2021 6:33:27 PM PDT by KC Burke
The statue of slave trader William Beckford will be replaced and stashed in a car park at a cost of £300,000, under City of London plans to remove his marble monument, The Telegraph can reveal.
Beckford, who owned plantations and up to 3,000 slaves in Jamaica, is honoured with a memorial in the City of London Corporation’s Guildhall headquarters where he served as Lord Mayor in the 18th century.
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The City in its gratitude erected this statue over two hundred years ago that stands in the Guildhall honoring the Lord Mayor as William Pitt the Elder, Cranmer, William Pitt the Younger, Nelson, Churchill and Wellington are honored.
They will decide whether to stick this in a underground parking garage storage space at great expense in September.
I think leftists and not minority folk are to blame and damn their eyes.
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“My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown), descendant of Hamilton Brown, who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town,” wrote Donald J. Harris in a 2018 essay for Jamaica Global.
Harris is an economist, scholar, and professor of economics, emeritus at Stanford University, according to his Stanford bio. And he is the father of Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
“The Harris name comes from my paternal grandfather Joseph Alexander Harris, land-owner and agricultural ‘produce’ exporter...and Hamilton Brown who owned over 1,100 slaves over the years. According to Jamaican slave registers from the National Archives, London going back to the early 1800s, Hamilton owned babies as young as the one-month-old recorded in an 1817 registry.
In two slave registers excerpted from the archives, Hamilton swears to inventories of Creole and African slaves — identified by name, age, “color,” and mother, if known — belonging to two of his plantations. One register lists 86 slaves, the other 124.
At the bottom of the lists, current as of June 28, 1817, Brown swears to their accuracy:
“I Hamilton Brown do swear that the above list and return consisting of two sheets is a true perfect and complete list and return, to the best of my knowledge and belief in every particular therein mentioned of all and every slaves possessed by me as owner, considered as most permanently settled, worked and employed in the Parish of Saint Ann ...”
Just another one of them englanders ...
... has nothing to do with the U.S.A.
You sound woke.
Hear heR!
Fat fingers.
Hear hear!
I don't understand. Please explain.
The guy in England held Jamaican slaves and that reminded me of the slave owning family of half-black Kamala Harris, the Communist VP of the USA.
Better idea. Take the 300,000 pounds payoff, paint the statue brown and say it is a slave revolt hero name F.M. Mudge and change the sign to agree with that.
I think you are absolutely correct.. I also believe the black American WANTS to succeed in America, but the left is doing everything it possibly can to stop it..
The black man MUST stay on the plantation if the democrats are to survive...
“I don’t understand. Please explain. “
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I was responding to whoever wrote your quotation.
Re: “I think leftists and not minority folk are to blame and damn their eyes.”
I didn’t say that.
The person who posted the thread did.
:)
He is in good company
The resting place of Kings
Skeleton found in car park is that of Richard III
Tests have established that a skeleton found under a car park in Leicester is that of Richard III, king of England from 1483-85. Richard Buckley, the lead archaeologist on the project at the University of Leicester, said that his team had proved “beyond reasonable doubt” that the bones were those of the last Plantagenet king.
• DNA evidence from the skeleton matches with that from Michael Ibsen, a Canadian who is a direct descendent of Richard’s sister Anne of York. In addition, evidence of battle wounds on the skeleton, and features of the remains such as their curved spine, provide a “highly convincing case” for this being Richard, Leicester’s Dr Jo Appleby said.
Maybe they should replace him with a black humanitarian like Shaka ( sarcasm).
Sauropods have fingers?
Who knew.
:)
What is significant is between the eight generations that separate he and I is another William Beckford — my great grandfather. He rode with John Brown and Brown’s sons in relief of Lawrence, Kansas the first time it was raided. Same family, same name. Each fit into his time and his historical context.
When you take people out of their context you dishonor the remembrance of them all.
I just stomp the keyboard ;-).
Kamel a hair a##es ancestors get a pass, muslim slave traders, drug cartels illegal alien slave traders, Asian slave traders of today are note recognized
So he knew the Harris clan?
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