Edward Colston was toppled and thrown into Bristol Harbour by protesters in June this year. The statue, which originally stood on Colston Avenue in Bristol’s city centre, was forcibly removed during a Black Lives Matter march, before being quietly dredged up by Bristol City Council at 5am the next day.
A month after Colston’s statue was removed, a new figure, a black resin-and-steel statue of campaigner Jen Reid with her fist raised defiantly, appeared.
The new statue – created by artist Marc Quinn and known as A Surge of Power – lasted only 24 hours before being taken down by the council.
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