Ninian Edwards Statue In Edwardsville To Stay For Now
Terri Maddox / Belleville News-Democrat EDWARDSVILLE — A controversial bronze statue of Ninian Edwards will, for the time being, remain where it is installed, in a small plaza near the city’s center. The statue, the plaza and Edwards’ slavery Edwards, whom the city is named after, was a founding political leader in Illinois, serving as its only territorial governor in the early 1800s and later as a U.S. Senator and the state’s third governor. He owned enslaved people and vetoed legislation as territorial governor that would have abolished indentured servitude, which many histor...
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