Authorities in Barbados have removed the statue of British Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson from the capital
Bridgetown's main square, two months after announcing plans to replace Britain's Queen Elizabeth as its
head of state and move on from its colonial past. The bronze statue was unveiled in 1813 but has been long
been viewed as a vestige of colonial rule, made even more controversial because of Nelson's defense of
the slave trade upon which Barbados' plantation economy was based.
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