Replacing a Monument to Slavery

A Black Lives Matter statue now rests where a slave owner’s likeness once stood in England

A new sculpture, by local artist Marc Quinn, of Black Lives Matter protestor Jen Reid stands on the plinth where the Edward Colston statue used to stand on July 15, 2020 in Bristol, England. Photo: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images

The original statue of slave owner Edward Colston now sits at the bottom of the harbor at Bristol in England. Anti-Black racism activists put it there as the news of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of police in Minneapolis reinvigorated calls for racial…