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Bristol council passes motion on reparations for city’s role in slave trade
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The statue of slaver Edward Colston being dumped onto ar river.
Image: PA
Image: PA
COUNCILLORS HAVE VOTED overwhelmingly in favour of a plan for “atonement and reparation” for Bristol’s role in the transatlantic slave trade.
Bristol City Council passed a motion at an extraordinary full council meeting today.
The motion – atonement and reparation for Bristol’s role in the transatlantic traffic in enslaved Afrikans – was supported by 47 councillors, and opposed by 12.
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