Black Lives Matter means more urgent to highlight British colonial and plantation links
If the National Trust evokes images of Jane Austen country houses, manicured gardens and cream teas, the recent Black Lives Matter protests and decolonisation movement has pulled into sharp focus the links between its properties and the slavery and colonialism which funded them.
It is, acknowledged John Orna-Orstein, the trust’s director of culture and engagement, a “pivotal” moment.
Source: National Trust hastens projects exposing links of country houses to slavery
Category: The National Trust, Black Lives Matter movement, Slavery, UK news, Heritage
