More statues have toppled across the globe in the last few weeks than at any time since the collapse of eastern European communism in 1989.
In Bristol, 17th-century slave dealer Edward Colston was torn from his pedestal and ended up on the bottom of the harbour.
In Antwerp, Belgium's King Leopold II, who earned huge profits from the forced-labour regime he imposed on the Congo, was painted red and set on fire before being carted away, and other statues of him across the country ...
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Adam Hochschild is the author of ten books, including King Leopold’s Ghost, about the Belgian colonisation of the Congo, and Bury the Chains, about the British anti-slavery movement.