{"id":29824,"date":"2021-04-27T16:52:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T15:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=29824"},"modified":"2021-04-27T16:52:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T15:52:27","slug":"swansea-council-approves-measures-to-add-context-to-place-names-with-links-to-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=29824","title":{"rendered":"Swansea Council approves measures to add \u2018context\u2019 to place names with links to slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Place names in Swansea with links to the slave trade or exploitation are to be accompanied by panels or digital bar codes to give a fuller historical context, while lesser-known figures from Swansea\u2019s past will be recognised in the future in \u2018a shift away from the traditional commemoration of industrialists and landowners\u2019.<\/h3>\n
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\u2026 cross-party working group has been looking into these issues\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

\u2026 deeper review of place names\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

Nation Cymru writes:<\/p>\n

The measures were recommended in a cabinet report, which cabinet enthusiastically approved at a meeting on March 18.<\/p>\n

In addition, future decisions relating to street names will be delegated to senior council officers in consultation with cabinet members, but no changes would take place without scrutiny and wider consultation.<\/p>\n

The acknowledgement of lesser-known characters has been evident for a while through Swansea Council\u2019s blue plaques \u2013 the latest of which will be unveiled on March 25 in honour of Jessie Donaldson.<\/p>\n

She campaigned for the abolition of slavery in the 19th Century, travelling to Ohio to operate a safe house which offered shelter to slaves fleeing from the plantations of the south to the relative safety of the north.<\/p>\n

There could be consideration of a memorial to the 230 people killed during the Three Nights\u2019 Blitz, and also to those who have died during the AIDS epidemic and the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

A cross-party working group has been looking into these issues after Swansea councillors passed a motion last summer calling for names or public signs which had confirmed links to slavery or exploitation to be removed where possible.<\/p>\n

The motion, which followed widespread Black Lives Matter protests, also called for a deeper review of place names and more information about Swansea\u2019s links to the slave trade and exploitation.<\/p>\n

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Equality
\n<\/strong>Council leader Rob Stewart said he was very supportive of the working group\u2019s recommendations, adding that equality was still something \u201cwe\u2019re not there on\u201d….<\/p>\n

The cabinet report said Swansea named many of its new streets after prominent local industrialists, members of the local gentry, and Welsh and British military heroes.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoincidentally, some of these figures had direct or indirect involvement with the British slave trade, owned slave plantations or were connected with slave-owning families,\u201d it said….<\/p>\n

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