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An Oxford University college has decided to keep its statue of a Barbados-born slave owner. All Souls College has dropped the name Christopher Codrington from its library, but has refused to remove its controversial statue. In a statement published at the end of last year the college said rather than seek to remove [the statue] the college will investigate further forms of memorialisation and contextualisation within the library, which will draw attention to the presence of enslaved people on the Codrington plantations, and will express the college’s abhorrence of slavery. Christopher Codrington, a former fellow of All Souls, died in 1710, leaving a bequest of £10,000 to the college, which unofficially gave his name to its library where the statue stands.
An Oxford college has removed the name of an 18th century slave trader from its main library but has defied calls to take down his statue.
All Souls College reviewed its link to Christopher Codrington, a Barbados-born colonial governor, in the wake of last year s Black Lives Matter movement.
The former college fellow who died in 1710 bequeathed £10,000 to the library which has since been unofficially known as the Codrington Library.
All Souls College has removed the name of an 18th century slave trader from its main library but has defied calls to take down his statue
A marble statue by Edward Cheere of the benefactor has been standing in the library after Codrington bequeathed £10,000 to the college
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All Souls College change Codrington Library name, but keep statue of slaveholder
[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Amelia Wood (Cherwell) writes about attempts by All Souls College (Oxford, England) to acknowledge that Christopher Codrington’s wealth was derived as a product of enslaved people’s work in the Caribbean, while not removing his statue from the Codrington Library. The College’s Governing Body announced that there will be a name change for the library. A plaque at the library now reads “In memory of those who worked in slavery on the Codrington plantations in the West Indies.”