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© Licensed to London News Pictures. 22/10/2018. Bristol, UK. Modern Slavery. Avon & Somerset police today launch a new campaign that aims to increase the amount of intelligence they receive on Modern Day Slavery and raise awareness of this form of exploitative crime. The campaign, called #TellUsWhatYouSee, aims to educate the public on the signs and indicators of various forms of modern day slavery, as well as details of how and where to report this information, in order to help police tackle this crime. File picture dated 21/10/2018 of an unofficial guerilla art exhibit that appeared last week in front of a city centre statue of Edward Colston to link Bristol’s slave-trading history with modern-day slavery, and to mark Anti-Slavery Day to raise awareness of and campaign to end modern slavery in the UK. (There is no suggestion that the police are responsible for the art exhibit). The artwork depicts around 100 human figures lying in front of the statue of slave-trader merchant Edward Colston. The figures have been placed in a similar formation to the way millions of people from West Africa were forced to lie on board slave ships sent from Bristol and other English ports to be transported to Bristol business-owned slave plantations in the Caribbean and North America. The outline of the ship was made up of blocks with the kind of professions and jobs now done by modern-day slaves, living and forced to work in Britain in 2018, such as ‘nail bar workers’, ‘sex worker’, ‘car wash attendant’, ‘domestic servant’, ‘fruit picker’, ‘kitchen worker’ and ‘farm worker’. The blocks are all chained together and the ones at the bow of the ship show the words ‘here and now’, with Edward Colston standing as if the ship's captain, gazing down on the bodies lying in rows on deck before him. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP

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© Licensed to London News Pictures. 22/10/2018. Bristol, UK. Modern Slavery. Avon & Somerset police today launch a new campaign that aims to increase the amount of intelligence they receive on Modern Day Slavery and raise awareness of this form of exploitative crime. The campaign, called #TellUsWhatYouSee, aims to educate the public on the signs and indicators of various forms of modern day slavery, as well as details of how and where to report this information, in order to help police tackle this crime. File picture dated 21/10/2018 of an unofficial guerilla art exhibit that appeared last week in front of a city centre statue of Edward Colston to link Bristol’s slave-trading history with modern-day slavery, and to mark Anti-Slavery Day to raise awareness of and campaign to end modern slavery in the UK. (There is no suggestion that the police are responsible for the art exhibit). The artwork depicts around 100 human figures lying in front of the statue of slave-trader merchant Edward Colston. The figures have been placed in a similar formation to the way millions of people from West Africa were forced to lie on board slave ships sent from Bristol and other English ports to be transported to Bristol business-owned slave plantations in the Caribbean and North America. The outline of the ship was made up of blocks with the kind of professions and jobs now done by modern-day slaves, living and forced to work in Britain in 2018, such as ‘nail bar workers’, ‘sex worker’, ‘car wash attendant’, ‘domestic servant’, ‘fruit picker’, ‘kitchen worker’ and ‘farm worker’. The blocks are all chained together and the ones at the bow of the ship show the words ‘here and now’, with Edward Colston standing as if the ship's captain, gazing down on the bodies lying in rows on deck before him. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP