Statue of Edward Colston
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The statue of Edward Colston is a bronze statue of Bristol-born merchant and transatlantic slave trader Edward Colston. It was created in 1895 by the Irish sculptor John Cassidy and was formerly situa
The statue in 2019
Detail of one of the dolphins
Irish sculptor John Cassidy
Art installation, showing figures representing slaves on a ship, during Anti-Slavery Day 2018
Edward Colston
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Edward Colston was an English merchant, slave trader, philanthropist and Tory Member of Parliament.
Statue of Edward Colston
…The statue of Edward Colston is a bronze statue of Bristol-born merchant and transatlantic slave trader Edward Colston (1636–1721). It was created in 1895 by the Irish sculptor John Cassidy and was formerly situated on a plinth of Portland stone in a public space known…
Jonathan Richardson Portrait of Edward Colston
Colston's Almshouses
Cromwell House, Mortlake, west London, where Colston died in 1721. He was buried in Bristol.
Engraving of Colston's monument in All Saints' Church, Bristol from Bristol Past and Present (1882)