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The recent extended discussion about issues relating to slavery threatened
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Thanks to all who took part in the substantive and interesting discussion.
It is the variety of perspectives that we all bring to these discussions
that makes them lively and educational. These subjects are of vital
importance to understanding our past and ourselves and they cannot and
should not just go away.

Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
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