As Colston’s statue lies forlorn in a lock-up, Bristol is working out what its toppling means | David Olusoga

The historian and adopted Bristolian on an exciting and painful month in the city

At the beginning of last month the now infamous statue of the 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston loomed over the centre of Bristol, as it had for 125 years. Today Colston lies flat on his back across a bed of wooden pallets on the concrete floor of a council lock-up.

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