Virginia Tears Down Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Statue, The Largest Confederate Monument In The U.S. (Forbes Breaking News)

More than 150 years after his surrender effectively ended the American Civil War and paved the way for slavery to be abolished in the U.S., a larger-than-life statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee was torn down Wednesday morning in the former Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.

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Virginia Tears Down Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Statue, The Largest Confederate Monument In The U.S.