A statue of Jefferson Davis, second from left, is on display in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington. A slaveholder, Davis represented Mississippi in the Senate and House before the American Civil War. AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File by Neil K R Sehgal, University of Pennsylvania and Ashwini Sehgal, Case Western Reserve University The legacy … Continued

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