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MuseRider

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1. We were a free state
Sun Feb 14, 2021, 08:53 PM
Feb 2021

and lots of good came from it but you just cannot stop this kind of hate entirely but you can keep it from being big news apparently. I am a descendent of free staters who rode with John Brown and helped form the government here after we took it back from the raiders. I was never aware of this growing up, my family apparently was not crazy about the history. I have been stunned over the years to learn that even though we were a free state, something I have always been proud of, there were still a lot of horrible racist actions in my state. It was hidden well in the history we were taught growing up. It always makes me so sad to read about it, we should all learn about this early on. Thanks for this. I was not aware of this one.

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