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FOUND: Us city removes last public confederate statue | Mind Blowing Facts

Workers begin to lay the bronze statue of Confederate General AP Hill onto a flatbed truck in Richmond, Virginia, the United States on December 12, 2022 [John C Clark/AP Photo]

The US city of Richmond, Virginia, once the capital of the Confederacy during the United States Civil War, has removed its last public statue commemorating a Confederate general.

The statue of Confederate General AP Hill was removed on Monday, with a crane hoisting it off a monument and into a truck. The city has removed other statues memorialising members of the Confederacy, which fought a war to maintain the enslavement of Black people in the US.

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