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Richmond Poet Laureate Roscoe Burnems tells the city’s stories.
The statue of Ambrose P. Hill had stood at a busy intersection since 1892
The city of Richmond -- the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War -- removed its last city-owned Confederate statue on Monday, more than two years after it began to purge itself of what many saw as painful symbols of racial oppression.
The city of Richmond — the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War — removed its last city-owned Confederate statue.
Richmond removed its statue of Confederate general A.P. Hill Monday, officially ditching the last public sculpture the former Confederate capital had.