“BRIDGETOWN, 十一月 17 (路透社) – Barbados removed the statue of British Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson from the capital Bridgetown’s main square on Monday, two months after announcing plans to replace Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and move on from its colonial past. The bronze statue was unveiled in 1813 to commemorate Nelson and the British Royal Navy’s victory over the French and Spanish in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The Caribbean, then largely colonized by Britain, France and Spain, was also an important battleground in the Napoleonic Wars and the ruling-classes and plantation elite had the statue erected to mark his role in the campaigns. But the statue has been targeted for removal by various administrations since 1990 as a vestige of colonial rule, made even more controversial because of Nelson’s defense of the slave trade upon which Barbados’ plantation economy was based. Wolfgang Kaehler via Getty Images Statue of Lord Horatio Nelson in Bridgetown, the capital city of Barbados, an island in the Caribbean. The square where it stood was originally called Trafalgar Square but was renamed National Heroes Square in 1999, although Nelson is not on the list of Barbados’ 10 National Heroes. But it took the global reassessment of history and racism triggered by the killing of George Floyd, a Black man who died under the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer in May this year, to prompt the government into action. At a ceremony on Monday night, Prime Minister Mia Mottley said the government accepted the statue was an “important, historic relic.” But she said: “It is not a relic to be placed in theNational Heroes Square of a nation that has had to fight for too long to shape its destiny and to forge a positive future for its citizens.” Carlo Allegri / Reuters Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley speaks during the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Sept. 23, 2019. In a May 1805 letter to his friend Simon Taylor in Jamaica, retired Barbados Community College history tutor Trevor Marshall noted, Nelson wrote that “I have ever been, and shall die, a firm friend of our present Colonial system.” He went on to denounce “the damnable doctrine” of abolitionists of the day like William Wilberforce. Nelson was killed on the deck of his flagship HMS Victory by a French sniper at the Battle of Trafalgar off Spain in October that same year. 两年后, Britain abolished the slave trade. “If Nelson had been alive, the end of slavery would have come even later,” Marshall said. After decades of overlooking Bridgetown’s principal thorough fare, the Nelson statue will be housed at the Barbados Museum in the Historic Garrison Area. It joins a number of other statues across the globe, including slave traders in Britain to Confederate generals in the United States, to have been hauled down as the Black Lives Matter campaign gathered momentum. The famous statue of Nelson in Trafalgar Square in London ― erected about 30 years after the Barbados one ― has also been targeted by activists for removal. ADRIAN DENNIS via Getty Images The statue of Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson stands atop the Column in Trafalgar Square in London, pictured Jan. 19, 2005. Barbados was claimed for England in 1625 and became independent after more than three centuries of colonial rule in 1966. Its present day population of about 287,000 people are mostly the descendants of African slaves brought over to work the plantations. Moves are underway now for Barbados to ditch Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and to become a republic before the 55th anniversary of its independence next year. (Editing by Sarah Marsh and Angus MacSwan)
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