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World Service,3 mins

After the Confederate flag, Confederate statues?

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"It's a very powerful and poignant irony": the debate over Confederate symbols in the US continues as a group of Democrats has discussed removing and relocating several statues from Congress. Amongst those paying tribute to former presidents and civil rights leaders are some which honour former slavery supporting statesmen from Confederate states. (Photo: Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, and Governor of Georgia. Credit: Tom Bateman, Âé¶¹Éç).

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