the European city tours about slavery and colonialism
A tour group passes a replica of a colonial VOC ship, moored in Amsterdam's Oosterdok. Composite: Alamy/Jennifer Tosch
We dodge through the crowds of tourists and workers on their lunch breaks in Madrid's Puerta del Sol Square and stop in front of the nearly three-ton statue of King Carlos III on horseback. Carlos III, playfully nicknamed Madrid's best mayor, is credited with modernizing the city's lighting, sewerage and waste disposal.
Kwame Ondo, the guide behind AfroIbérica Tours, offers another, albeit lesser known, fact about the monarch. "He was one of the largest slave owners of his time," Ondo says, citing ...