As well as a statue in the city centre, schools, streets, and many other buildings in Bristol were named after Edward Colston. Between 16, the company transported 212,000 enslaved people across the Atlantic, of whom 44,000 died en route. He was a member of the Royal African Company. NARRATOR: The statue that Jen is referring to was of Edward Colston a 17th Century Bristol merchant and slave trader. I remember an office that I had worked in, directly opposite was Colston standing proud over Bristol. You know, I've always been very aware of what Bristol is, and it being built on the back of slavery.

NARRATOR: Jen Reid grew up in Bath, the only black child at school, where she regularly encountered racism. So he settled here and, eighteen months later, he sent for my mother and my sister. He often reminds me of seeing smoke coming out of a chimney and him thinking that the house was on fire. He found that experience, as you can imagine, quite daunting. CAPTION: TRACING MY FAMILY'S STOLEN ANCESTORS JEN REID: So my father left Jamaica in 1958, he came here to live with his sister and to find work. MATT SMITH, Professor of History, University College London: If we want to see the legacies of slavery and colonialism in Britain, we need look no further than the people. ALASDAIR DOGGART: We share the same place in time and space in the world, in today's society, and we owe it to each other to know more about our ancestors together. JEN REID: My history is your history, your history is my history, and our history is our story.

Tracing my family tree