{"id":56641,"date":"2018-07-06T03:33:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T03:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56641"},"modified":"2018-07-06T03:33:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T03:33:44","slug":"bristols-new-lord-mayor-removes-316-year-old-portrait-of-controversial-slave-trader-edward-colston-from-her-office-wall-and-replaces-him-with-a-picture-of-a-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56641","title":{"rendered":"Bristol&#8217;s new Lord Mayor removes 316-year-old portrait of controversial slave trader Edward Colston&#8230; from her office wall and replaces him with a picture of a lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-5859955\/Lord-Mayor-Bristol-removes-portrait-slave-trader-Edward-Colston-office.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Bristol&#8217;s new Lord Mayor removes 316-year-old portrait of controversial slave trader Edward Colston&#8230; from her office wall and replaces him with a picture of a lion<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Mail<\/a><br \/>\n2018-06-19<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/richardspillett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Richard Spillett<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-5859955\/Lord-Mayor-Bristol-removes-portrait-slave-trader-Edward-Colston-office.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-c0d8473fb49bd6a0\" class=\"blkBorder img-share b-loaded\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/newpix\/2018\/06\/19\/09\/4D65A2A600000578-5859955-image-m-7_1529396471851.jpg\" alt=\"Cleo Lake, the\u00a0Lord Mayor of Bristol, has removed a portrait of Edward Colston from the wall of her office because of his role in the slave trade\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CleoDanceBaton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cleo Lake<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_mayors_of_Bristol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lord Mayor of Bristol<\/a>, has removed a portrait of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Colston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edward Colston<\/a> from the wall of her office because of his role in the slave trade.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>Portrait of slave trader <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Colston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edward Colston<\/a> has hung in mayor&#8217;s office since the 50s<\/li>\n<li>But the new mayor has ordered it be removed because she can&#8217;t work next to it<\/li>\n<li>Colston helped make <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bristol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bristol<\/a> a rich city, but his company was behind the trafficking and deaths of thousands of slaves<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_mayors_of_Bristol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lord Mayor of Bristol<\/a> has removed a 300-year-old portrait of a slave trader from the wall above her desk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CleoDanceBaton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cleo Lake<\/a> said she &#8216;simply couldn&#8217;t stand&#8217; the sight of Edward Colston looking at her as she worked.<\/p>\n<p>The portrait dates back to 1702 and was hung in 1953 when City Hall opened &#8211; but Cleo Lake has asked for it to be installed in a museum about the abolition of slavery.<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest move by the city to dissociate themselves from Colston, with venues and schools having previously removed his name from their titles.<\/p>\n<p>Cleo Lake, who describes herself as of Scottish, Bristolian and Afro-Caribbean heritage, was elected in May by fellow councillors&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-5859955\/Lord-Mayor-Bristol-removes-portrait-slave-trader-Edward-Colston-office.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleo Lake, the Lord Mayor of Bristol, has removed a portrait of Edward Colston from the wall of her office because of his role in the slave trade. &#8230;she said she &#8216;simply couldn&#8217;t stand&#8217; the sight of Edward Colston looking at her as she worked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,6940,10],"tags":[851,28824,28823,81,24177],"class_list":["post-56641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-uk","tag-bristol","tag-cleo-lake","tag-edward-colston","tag-england","tag-richard-spillett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56642,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56641\/revisions\/56642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}