First, of course, it wasn’t put up on Colston’s death but almost two centuries later, in 1895 – itself a political act.

That reminds me of all of the Southern statues in this country erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy, primarily in the first three decades of the twentieth century. They weren't part of the country's healing process. They were staking a claim for the Lost Cause. I have been happy to see them pulled down.