John Pinney
Pero’s Bridge: how did Bristol’s memorial to the enslaved become a love-lock bridge?
The Pero footbridge was named after Pero Jones, an enslaved servant of John Pinney, a merchant from Bristol, UK, in honor of the role the region played in the slave trade. Pero was acquired as a slave from Mountravers plantation in the Caribbean by John Pinney when he was 12 years old. He worked and…
