Rhodes was also a great “race patriot” who had amassed a fortune, in his own words, “exploit[ing] the cheap slave labour that is available from the natives of the colonies.”[5] Upon his death in 1902, he bequeathed £100,000 to Oriel College, though the bulk of his money went to the Rhodes Trust and its scholarships for students from the British colonies, the United States, and Germany. For more than a century, Rhodes’s statue has gazed at Oxford students—a select few of whom hold the mineral magnate’s prestigious fellowship—as they walk past Oriel’s north side. This, despite vehement calls for
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