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Viscount's statue should mention slave trade links says Councillor Tom Gray

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Comrie monument to explain links between the prominent landmark and the slave trade.The 22m Melville Monument sits on Dunmore, overlooking the village, and was erected to honour Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.Fiona's van-tastic salon planDundas delayed William Wilberforce’s parliamentary motion to abolish the slave trade in 1792 by winning an amendment to have the word “gradually” inserted into the document, which saw slavery legalised in the UK for another 15 years.Strathallan councillor Tom Gray spent a lot of his youth in Comrie but conceded he only had a “nodding awareness” of the monument.He said: “The statues of Colston, Dundas and many more were invariably erected by a divided society, commemorating the heroes of a divided.

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