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 | | Louise Mirrer, the society’s president, said the new show would focus on the persistent effects of racism in the state and New York City through the Civil War and Reconstruction, including the draft riots of 1863, as well as the economic and political connections between New York and the system of slavery. |
 | | The exhibition will document the ways in which “New York was the economic capital of the capital that was financing the South,” said James Oliver Horton, the Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History at George Washington University, the exhibition’s chief historian. |
 | | Nearly four decades after the Gee's Bend ferry stopped running, a new vessel is once again crossing the Alabama River, connecting the mostly fl residents of Gee's Bend to Camden, the seat of Wilcox County. |
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