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America's Racial Awakening Forces Virginia Military Institute to Confront Its Past—and Future

America's Racial Awakening Forces Virginia Military Institute to Confront Its Past—and Future
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America's Racial Awakening Forces Virginia Military Institute To Confront Its Past—And Future


America s Racial Awakening Forces Virginia Military Institute To Confront Its Past And Future
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Civil War cannons outside the barracks that house Virginia Military Institute’s cadets in Lexington, Va. on May 6, 2021.
It was a cold morning last December when they finally took Stonewall Jackson down. No ceremony was held, no protesters gathered; snowflakes swirled in the air. A crane silently hoisted the enormous bronze Confederate general from his perch of 108 years.
To many graduates of the Virginia Military Institute, that was no way to treat a hero. In a Facebook group for the “VMI Spirit,” alumni mourned the “erasing” of their cherished history. One called it “ethnic cleansing.” Several vowed to write the school out of their wills. “Shame on you low-life PsOS that were involved in this decision,” another man wrote. “May you be haunted nightly, by ....

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Bowser, Mary Richards (fl. 1846–1867) – Encyclopedia Virginia


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alias Mary Jane Henley a likely mulatto girl, about twenty years of age, arrested for being without free papers, was committed for nine days. She was sent to the North about nine years ago, by a highly respectable lady of this city, for the purpose of receiving a thorough education, after completing which she went to Liberia.” The article asserted, “The laws of Virginia positively prohibit the return to this State of any free negro who has lived in a free State,” yet Richards remained in Richmond. This may have been because her freedom was likely de facto, not de jure both Virginia law and stipulations in John Van Lew’s will made it difficult for the Van Lew family to free any of their slaves. If this was indeed the case, Richards likely experienced both the protection of and continued subjection to the Van Lew family. On August 30, at the end of her jail term, the ....

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Confederate Currency – Encyclopedia Virginia


Confederate Currency
A $500 note issued by the Confederate government in Richmond, Virginia, in February 1864, bears the image of the dead war hero General Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson on the right, and the Confederate seal and motto, Deo Vindice ( With God as Our Defender ) on the left. Used as currrency during the war, this note promises the bearer that the full $500 amount will be paid on demand Two Years after the ratification of a Treaty of Peace between the Confederate States and the United States. These legal notes were not backed by assets such as gold, silver, or even tobacco, and became increasingly worthless as inflation soared and more and more paper money was printed. When the war ended and the Confederate government no longer existed, the currency lost all of its value. ....

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