BBC Newsround: Black History Month 2020: How slavery shaped our citiesSlavery shaped modern Britain and we live with the memory of slavery today. The stately homes, street names, buildings, monuments, and statues across the country tie us to this terrible past. From London to Glasgow, everywhere you turn you'll see the names of wealthy men printed onto city landscapes. They have been remembered for their work in engineering, charity, art, and politics, but their connections to slavery have often been forgotten. There's now a big debate about whether to remove, rename or reword the buildings, statues and streets in cities across the UK as some people feel they celebrate individuals who participated in slavery as well as Britain's role in this history. Newsround went to Bristol, Liverpool and Glasgow to find out how the legacies of slavery can still be found in the street names, organisations and monuments which are so familiar to these cities residents. Read on below.
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