Edward Colston was a Bristol-born English slave trader, merchant, and Member of Parliament who acquired a significant part of his wealth through the trade and exploitation of slaves.

His name is commemorated in several Bristol landmarks, streets, three schools and the Colston bun.

It’s a disgrace for a slave trader to still be celebrated and commemorated in such a way. There is no place in society in this day and age for Landmarks, schools and roads to be named after those who profited in the sale and exploitation of slaves.

Slave traders should be a part of our curriculum - not a part of our streets!

We ask that all Colston landmarks drop his name and instead are more appropriately renamed.

Enslaved peoples lives matter. Black Lives Matter. 

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