HENRY Dundas’s biographer has rejected claims that the politician was against ending slavery, asserting that he was a “genuine opponent” of the trade.
Calls have been made for Dundas’s statue in Edinburgh’s St Andrew Square to come down amid claims he prolonged slavery in the UK.
Writing in The National today, our columnist Michael Fry, who penned a book on Dundas, said that he was “never much involved with the slave trade”.
And he revealed that he was kicked off a committee set up by Edinburgh City Council, where he was invited to draft a new inscription for his memorial.
READ MORE: Here’s the real truth on Henry Dundas and whether he ‘prolonged’ slavery
Fry said he found the project being quietly abandoned – at least, until he found out last week that a new committee had taken over.
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