Efforts by Jesus College students to remove a memorial to Tobias Rustat, who invested in the Royal African Company, were likened to trying to get rid of an unpopular relative .
Students at Jesus College are demanding Cambridge remove a plaque to Tobias Rustat after it emerged that he had held a leadership position in the slave-trading firm the Royal African Company.
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Undergraduates at the college are demanding the removal of a plaque to Tobias Rustat, a courtier to King Charles II, after it emerged that he had held a leadership position in a slave-trading firm.