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    TV, FILM & RADIO

    Jun 10, 2021 5 minutes

    Living history

    Descendants / BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds, from Friday 28 May

    Britain’s past as a slave-trading nation plays into the present. This idea came into sharp focus in June 2020, when protesters pushed a statue of Edward Colston (1636›1721), later honoured by the Victorians as a philanthropist despite his involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, into Bristol Harbour. Temporarily, a statue of Bristolian Jen Reid, portrayed giving a Black Power salute, replaced Colston.

    But resonance between the past and protest doesn’t just centre on moments that take the headlines. There’s a deeper story here, too, of how so many Britons can find, by going back just a few generations, connections to slavery, whether they are related to those who were enslaved, those who benefited from the trade

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