{"id":12035,"date":"2021-01-23T14:08:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T14:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=18762"},"modified":"2021-01-23T14:08:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T14:08:12","slug":"old-century-statues-at-london-removes-through-public-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/23\/old-century-statues-at-london-removes-through-public-consultation\/","title":{"rendered":"Old century statues at London removes through public consultation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK,<\/p>\n<p>Corporation votes to remove statues of 17th- and 18th-century figures at City of London. Both statue personalities were made money from slavery.<\/p>\n<p>William Beckford was a former mayor of London and made his fortune from extensive farming in Jamaica and employed slave labor, while John Cass was a Member of Parliament and held a senior position in Royal Africa Company and facilitated transfer of slaves.<\/p>\n<p>Statues of two will now be installed elsewhere in London. The London Corporation has launched a public consultation on slavery-related statues in the wake of &#8220;Black Lives Meter&#8221; protests in Britain and Europe following brutal killing of unarmed black George Floyd by US police in September last year.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-racist protests, which culminated in the demolition of a statue of Edward Colston, a slave merchant in Bristol, sparked a nationwide demand for the removal of colonial monuments in Britain.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/old-century-statues-at-london-removes-through-public-consultation\/\">VOSA<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK, Corporation votes to remove statues of 17th- and 18th-century figures at City of London. Both statue personalities were made money from slavery. William Beckford was a former mayor of London and made his fortune from extensive farming in Jamaica and employed slave labor, while John Cass was a Member of Parliament and held a \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":863,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1395],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/863"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12036,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12035\/revisions\/12036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}