Famous Penny Lane Signs Defaced Over Slavery Claims

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Source: bbc.com, June 12, 2020

Penny Lane signs in Liverpool, England have been defaced over claims they are linked to slave merchant James Penny.

The markers had the word Penny blacked out and the word racist written above them on Thursday night.

The city’s International Slavery Museum said it was not certain whether the street, which was immortalised in a song by The Beatles in 1967, was named after the 18th Century slave merchant.

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