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Opinion

More to the story: Questions about slave auction marker go back years

Editor’s note: Last Friday, before being turned in to police, Albemarle County resident Richard Allan came to C-VILLE’s office to tell the story of why he had taken Court Square’s slave auction block marker in the early morning hours of February 6. He asked that we print an article he had written about the issue […]

richardallan | February 11, 2020

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