Colston’s firm enslaved the most Africans, David Olusoga tells Bristol court

Historian appears as expert witness at trial of four accused of criminal damage of Edward Colston memorial

Edward Colston was chief executive officer" of a company responsible for enslaving more Africans than any other in British history, the historian David Olusoga has told a court, as defendants argued they acted lawfully" in toppling his statue.

Appearing on Thursday as an expert witness in the trial of four people accused of criminal damage of the memorial to Colston, the presenter of the BBC's A House Through Time series described the horrors of the trade.