The largest statue in Edinburgh will bear a plaque describing its subject’s links to slavery, the city council has announced.
In the wake of the deplinthing of Edward Colston in Bristol and the Black Lives Matter protests around the world, the statue of former Home Secretary Henry Dundas will now stand above an inscription detailing Dundas’s role in delaying the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade.
The plaque, to be placed below the statue in the city’s central St Andrew Square, will say it is “dedicated to the memory of the more than half a million Africans whose enslavement was a consequence of Henry Dundas’s actions".
