« Les Anglais doivent-il retirer la colonne de l'amiral Nelson, sur Trafalgar Square, pour ses positions pro-esclavage ? », Franceinfo, (lire en ligne, consulté le )
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(en) « In a May 1805 letter to his friend Simon Taylor in Jamaica, retired Barbados Community College history tutor Trevor Marshall noted, Nelson wrote that “I have ever been, and shall die, a firm friend of our present Colonial system”.
He went on to denounce “the damnable doctrine” of abolitionists of the day like William Wilberforce.Nelson was killed on the deck of his flagship HMS Victory by a French sniper at the Battle of Trafalgar off Spain in October that same year. Two years later, Britain abolished the slave trade.”If Nelson had been alive, the end of slavery would have come even later,” Marshall said. », cité par : Barbados removes Nelson statue in break with colonial past, Robert Edison Sandiford, Agence Reuters, 17 novembre 2020
