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Submitting. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the Black Lives Matter movement, Erin, a P7 pupil at Lochwinnoch Primary, began researching McDowall’s life, and discovered his involvement in the slave trade. The 11-year-old, captain of the school’s McDowall House, wrote to the school, reasoning that pupils would not be happy if they knew the full extent of McDowall’s slaving past. At first, she received an encouraging response, with the school newsletter praising her “very mature research” and promising to look at the house renaming “as a whole school”. But a year on, Erin, whose maternal grandfather hails from Kenya, said she is frustrated at how the issue has been handled.

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