• I AM the descendant of slave-owning members of the plantocracy Carringtons, Codring­tons, Trotmans and McCormicks, who had sugar and tobacco estates in Barbados, Virginia, Puerto Rico and the Danish Virgin Islands.

One of the Barbados Codringtons left his slaves to the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge and SPCK was branded on the backs of these “chattels”.

I don’t want the people’s statues pulled down, I want labels added to their plinths detailing their plantations and numbers of slaves, telling their stories and educating all of us who are riding on the backs of the traders and owners’ genocidal activities.

We not only condone unequal and institutionally racist societies, the legacy of the slave trade and the empire builders, but enjoy the museums, town halls, libraries and colleges that they built.

In the year that celebrated the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade, working in Camden libraries, I created a laminated display for Swiss Cottage library and later took it to conferences and other libraries.

The subject matter uses pictures and historical material about my family on the planter side and about the slavery side in Barbados and St Thomas and I would love to know if any readers or organisations might be able to use it. It is suitable for a school or educational purpose and I am looking for a home for it.

HELEN POLLOCK