Heidi Fardell on Baroque music and the transatlantic slave trade

Heidi Fardell
Friday, May 23, 2025

As we mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of George Floyd and the surge in the Black Lives Matter movement that followed, Heidi Fardell reflects on the legacy of slavery and racism in the UK music industry

The felled statue of Bristol-born merchant and trans-Atlantic slave trader Edward Colston now resides in M Shed's Bristol People gallery as part of a display about the history of protest in Bristol © Wikimedia Commons
The felled statue of Bristol-born merchant and trans-Atlantic slave trader Edward Colston now resides in M Shed's Bristol People gallery as part of a display about the history of protest in Bristol © Wikimedia Commons

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