Scotland, Slavery and Statues

SYNOPSIS

Following the four-year debate over how Henry Dundas should be remembered on the inscription of the Melville Monument in Edinburgh. Sir Geoff Palmer and his supporters have argued for years that Henry Dundas deliberately delayed the abolition of the slave trade when he won support for abolition to be "gradual', whereas Henry Dundas"s ancestor Bobby Melville and others argue that Dundas was an abolitionist who was being pragmatic.