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Grave of enslaved African in Bristol vandalised in ‘retaliation attack’
RACISTS vandalised the grave of an enslaved African man in an apparent “retaliation attack” yesterday after protesters pulled down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol.
The headstone of Scipio Africanus, who lived in the city in the 18th century, was smashed and a message scrawled on a flagstone nearby.
It read: “Put Colston’s statue back or things will really heat up.”
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