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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Esther Addley

London to pay tribute to victims of slave trade with memorial, says mayor

Statue of Robert Milligan is removed by workers outside the Museum of London Docklands near Canary Wharf
The memorial will sit close to the former site of a statue of Robert Milligan, an 18th-century slave owner, taken down in 2020 after protests. Photograph: John Sibley/Reuters

London is to have a memorial commemorating the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, the first such monument of its scale in Britain, the mayor has announced.

The memorial will be built in West India Quay in the capital’s Docklands, close to warehouses that were built to house goods produced through slavery.

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