Comment | > Those statues are of men that profited from destroying the lives of hundreds, if not thousands of innocent Africans
Ah - this is proof that you're reading from a script frankly. Most of the Victorian heroes of empire commemorated in Glasgow, like Wellington and Roberts, were involved in suppressing mutinies in India, which were their major crimes. They were not slave traders. Napoleon, on the other hand, had a gruesome history with the Haitians... |
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