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Statue of slave trader Edward Colston, formerly in The Centre, Bristol, erected in 1895, toppled in 2020. Bristol, a port city in south-west England, was involved in the transatlantic slave trade. Bristol's part in the trade was prominent in the 17th and 18th centuries as the city's merchants used their position to gain involvement.
9 de sept. de 2018 · New life for historic theatre as it faces up to ‘slave trade’ past. Bristol’s Old Vic confronts its controversial 250-year-old past on its relaunch after a £25m facelift. Vanessa Thorpe...
5 de feb. de 2022 · Sat 5 Feb 2022 08.00 EST. Bristol Old Vic’s outgoing artistic director Tom Morris has defended his decision to publicly highlight the slave trade riches that financed the theatre’s...
Many of the city’s public buildings, educational and economic institutions (such as the Theatre Royal, Colston’s School, the Old Bank and the tobacco and sugar industries), owe their origins to the wealth created by the trade in enslaved Africans and slave-produced commodities.
The creation of The Old Bank shows how Bristol’s relationship with the slave trade benefited the city and the country in a multitude of ways, and displaying how the ripple effect of slavery touched almost every corner of Bristol’s society.
16 de mar. de 2007 · Along with Liverpool and London, Bristol was one of the main British ports involved in the slave trade. However, despite the fact that much of Bristol's wealth relied on this and other...
26 de sept. de 2023 · Bristol's Old Vic Theatre was built in 1766 and is one of the oldest theatres in the UK. Originally called The Theatre Royal, it was funded by 50 men, many of whom were slave...
