Campaigners call for museum to document UK's role in slave trade

Museum proposal seen as way of educating people about Britain’s past in order to combat contemporary racism

Artists, cultural leaders and city mayors have called for a new national museum to be established to document Britain’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and its racist legacy.

The Black Lives Matter protests and the toppling of the slaver Edward Colston’s Bristol statue have fuelled demands that Britain face up to the horrors of its past in order to combat contemporary racism. A museum educating people about the country’s role in the slave trade is seen as one way of helping to to do that.