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UVA Program Arms K-12 Teachers With Resources on Slavery and Racism
March 30, 2018
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, March 30 -- The University of Virginia issued the following news release:

In 1861, Alexander H. Stephens, vice president of the short-lived Confederate States of America, gave a speech about the Confederate constitution, which included justifying and codifying the continuation of slavery as the basis for secession.

The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as . . .

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