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Slavery: Audit finds 200 commemorations to slave trade in Wales

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Wales has 209 streets, buildings, portraits or monuments commemorating people directly involved with the slave trade or who opposed its abolition.

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BBC News

Slavery: Audit finds 200 commemorations to slave trade in Wales

First Minister Mark Drakeford says the audit "helps us establish an honest picture of our history".

3 years ago·United Kingdom

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The Guardian

More than 200 public tributes connected to slave trade found in Wales

Audit finds figures linked to colonial exploitation honoured in statues, buildings and street namesMore than 200 statues, street names and buildings in Wales have been identified as being connected to the slave trade, and many of the figures represented are shown as role models.An audit commissioned in July by the first minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, following the Black Lives Matter protests, identifies 13 monuments, buildings or street name…

3 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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Wales Online

More than 200 statues, street names and buildings linked to slave trade

They have been identified following an audit by the Welsh Government

3 years ago

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South Wales Argus

Report highlight's Gwent's links to British imperialism and the slave trade

ELEVEN streets in the Gwent region were found to be named after people with definite personal culpability in relation to the slave trade or the British Empire, according to the findings of report into public monuments, street and building names in Wales associated with the slave trade and the British Empire.

3 years ago·Newport, United Kingdom

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Leader Live

Over 200 Welsh statues, streets and buildings connected to the slave trade listed in nationwide audit

MORE than 200 Welsh statues, streets and buildings have connections to the slave trade, a nationwide audit has found.

3 years ago·Wrexham, United Kingdom

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Deeside

Flintshire statues, streets and buildings connected to the slave trade listed in ‘urgently’ commissioned Welsh Gov’t audit

Over 200 Welsh statues, streets and buildings have been found to have connections to the slave trade, a nationwide audit has found. In July, following the death of George Floyd and a month of action by the Black Lives Matter movement, First Minister Mark Drakeford ordered an urgent audit of statues, street and building names […]The post Flintshire statues, streets and buildings connected to the slave trade listed in ‘urgently’ commissioned Welsh…

3 years ago·Deeside, United Kingdom

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