Dundas St (unofficially) renamed "Emancipation St"

"Earlier this month following the peaceful protests for Black Lives Matter statues around the city depicting historical figures tied to the slave trade, such as Henry Dundas on the Melville Monument who was best known for delaying the abolition of the slave trade in the 18th centuty which resulted in an estimated 630,000 additional people being enslaved against their will, were vandalised with graffiti and there were several petitions to remove them."
"An unnamed grassroots activist group have hung alternative street signs on several streets and buildings with ties to Scotland’s slave trade around the Capital." [Scotsman Newspaper]

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