Striking the balance

It’s been just under a week since protestors toppled a statue of British slave trader Edward Colston. A debate had raged for years over the appropriateness of the memorial to a man who was responsible for removing 100,000 people from Africa to the Caribbean as slaves. They were branded across their chest with the name of the company he ran and of those 100,000, 20,000 died en route. Their bodies were thrown into the sea.