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LONDON, U.K. -- Edward Colston has a new resting place: Sleeping with the fishes at the bottom of Bristol Harbor.
To be bound up like a slave, ropes looped around your torso, and then ripped from the glorious plinth where you’ve stood for 125 years. Some of those who pulled down your bronze statue over the weekend were descendants of the very African “cargo” your men shackled into the bellies of your ships.
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