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No home for fundraised slavery sculpture
A statue celebrating members of the Royal Navy ... Colin Kemp, from Portsmouth, has fundraised nearly £70,000 for the memorial to the West Africa Squadron. He has offered the work to Portsmouth ...
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Benin and other West African kingdoms
The people of West Africa were skilled potters and metalworkers. Some of them worked with brass and some with gold. Potters in the kingdom of Nok made sculptures from a type of clay called terracotta.
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Who is Jen Reid? The Black Lives Matter activist whose statue replaced Edward Colston’s in Bristol
which is believed to have sold about 100,000 west African people into slavery in the Caribbean and the Americas between 1672 and 1689. For years, Bristol citizens have campaigned for the statue to ...