The university’s housing building is named after the “meaning” of slavery.
The colony, a series of converted houses, houses sophomores and juniors at Clare College, Cambridge University.
After worrying about the meaning of the colony, it was decided to rename it.
The buildings have nothing to do with slavery.
A Clare College spokesperson said: “It is becoming increasingly clear that informal site names between Chesterton Lane and Castle Street have implications that do not reflect university values.
“In this way, this place becomes a castle court.”
Cambridge Clare College, known as Liberal and Progressive College, accepted female students along with Churchill and King in 1972.
The colony building was at the Chesterton intersection.
Information about the name change came after a campaign by Jesus College to remove the plaque commemorating college philanthropist and slave investor Tobias Rustat from the chapel.
The university fought the Anglican Church in February and moved the monument to another location in the Constitutional Court, but ultimately lost the case.
In 2021, the university returned the Benin Bronze (an Ondori sculpture) to the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments.
The Ondori statue was stolen by British colonial forces in 1897 and donated to Jesus College by the student’s father in 1905.
And in 2019, St. Catharine College removed the Demerara call from the public eye because it was thought to be used on slave plantations in Guyana.
In the same year, Cambridge created an advisory group on the heritage of slavery at the university.
This group is investigating the institute’s involvement in the Atlantic slave trade and other historical forms of coercion and wage labor.
“It may not be possible to fully establish university participation, but a better understanding of this participation is critical to university efforts to address some of the structural inequality that is the legacy of slavery. It should be,” the statement said.
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