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24 de mai. de 2024 · Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville was a British careerist politician who held various ministerial offices under William Pitt the Younger and whose adroit control of Scottish politics earned him the nickname “King Harry the Ninth.”
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21 de mai. de 2024 · The change is part of an ongoing effort by the city to rename public assets bearing the name of Henry Dundas, a Scottish politician who delayed the abolition of slavery in Britain by 15 years.
11 de mai. de 2024 · Rainsberry's initiative comes three years after city council voted to rename Dundas Street, on the grounds that the street's namesake, British politician Henry Dundas, did not do enough to hasten the end of the trans-Atlanic slave trade in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
23 de mai. de 2024 · For Scotland, it was Henry Dundas, as a lawyer, who won over the Scottish law lords on the appeal case he headed of an escaped enslaved man, Joseph Knight.
21 de mai. de 2024 · The change is part of an ongoing effort by the city to rename public assets bearing the name of Henry Dundas, a Scottish politician who delayed the abolition of slavery in Britain by 15 years. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 21, 2024.
25 de mai. de 2024 · However, city staff conducted research and found that Henry Dundas, a Scottish politician from the 18th and 19th centuries, played a role in prolonging the transatlantic slave trade. This discovery led to a petition with 14,000 signatures demanding the renaming of the street.
22 de mai. de 2024 · The change is part of an ongoing effort by the city to rename public assets bearing the name of Henry Dundas, a Scottish politician who delayed the abolition of slavery in Britain by 15 years.
