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"Over two years ago, Richmond was home to more Confederate statues than any city in the United States. Collectively, we have closed that chapter," the city's mayor said.
Many Confederate statues in Virginia were erected decades after the Civil War, during the Jim Crow era, and when historians and others tried to depict the South’s rebellion as a fight to defend states’ rights, not slavery.
The city of Richmond _ the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War _ has removed its last city-owned Confederate statue
Until today, the removal of a memorial to General A.P. Hill had been repeatedly stalled by litigation brought by his indirect descendants.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — 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