The Museum of the Home has still not removed a statue of a slave trader - despite pledging to do so a year ago. Sir Robert Geffrye made part of his fortune from the Royal African Company, which shipped 84,000 people into enslavement. 📲 Full story:
By Chelsea CoatesThe Museum of the Home in London has still not removed a statue of slaver Sir Robert Geffrye from its entrance - despite pledging to do so a year ago.
The statue is positioned over the entrance of the building, which was an almshouse that Geffrye funded before the museum was founded there. The campaign group have staged multiple protests at the museum, and the National Education Union also joined a boycott, with members pledging not to take school trips there.The museum first promised to remove the statue after a consultation of more than 2,000 people in 2020.
The statue remains at the entrance, however, after the former culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, encouraged the museum to keep the statue in 2020.
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