For more than a century, the trailblazing contribution of black women in Edinburgh in inspiring emancipation and suffrage movements across the globe has been buried in time.
Despite its tragic links to the slave trade, the capital once provided a platform for iconic members of female-led movements to make their voices heard around the world, yet there is little to celebrate the significance of their fearless activism.
While towering columns and buildings bear the names of men who, directly or indirectly, profited from and helped delay the abolition of slavery, few monuments to women who made strides to end a dark period of history exist.
