In an open-air industrial area in Richmond, Virginia, lie the remains of Confederate statues.
The storage wasteland, whose exact location has been withheld for security reasons, is a carefully organized graveyard of America’s racist past. The remains of Gen Robert E Lee – glorified by a statue that is 60ft tall and was once the largest on Richmond’s Monument Avenue – takes up about half the space. In the background is a slab dedicated to “Stonewall” Jackson, who earned his nickname at the first battle of Manassas, fought only 30 miles south of Washington, DC at the start of the civil war (1861-65).
