slavery

• Your say / slavery

  ‘It is easy to bury the painful parts of our past but it is unfathomably important that we don’t’

  Grace Hillier thinks the city needs a place to confront its slave trading past

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• Features / slavery

  Blood on the bricks: more than Colston?

  Bristol's wealth acquired from the slave trade brings uncomfortable questions

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• People / miles chambers

  On the arts and the legacy of the slave trade

  Bristol poet laureate Miles Chambers reflects on various themes

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• News / Colston Girl's school

  Colston’s Girls’ School to remove references to Edward Colston in annual ceremony

  The school has taken the decision to change the focus of their Commemoration Day for the first time

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• Your say / slavery

  ‘A sickening reminder of why the past always remains present’

  Roger Griffith reflects on the slavery roots that link Bristol and America

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• Your say / bridge

  ‘Why are we naming new civic infrastructure so insensitively?’

  Cleo Lake on why Bristol's new bridge should not be named 'Finzel'

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• Theatre / abolition

  Review: Muscovado, Alma Tavern Theatre

  Powerful play examines slavery and the politics of control

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