Sadiq Khan pledges London memorial to remember victims of trans-Atlantic slave trade by LeahMahon_
The Mayor of London has announced a memorial that will remember Black people who lost their lives during the slave trade
The memorial is understood to be the first of its scale and profile that will reflect the experiences and resistance of enslaved Black people transported from Africa and taken to forcibly work on colonies in the Caribbean. “It is vital that our public spaces reflect the heritage of our great city – in all its diversity and complexity. This memorial will help commemorate the victims of a dark, yet formative chapter of our history.
The slavery memorial will be placed in West India Quay in London Docklands which is where numerous warehouses were built to receive the brutal equipment used on enslaved Black people – they are the only surviving buildings of its times in the capital. London and parts of the UK have frequent memorials about abolition and the power and wealth of Britain’s role in the slavery, including slave trader Tobias Rustat whose statue stands outside of Jesus College at the University of Cambridge and Edward Colston whose memorial was toppled at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.
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