Edmund Ruffin: The Confederate Who Chose Suicide Rather Than Live in a United States Where Black People Were Free
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Edmund Ruffin was a Virginia planter, politician, and fierce pro-slavery advocate, who spent his life defending the Confederacy and the institution of slavery. When the Civil War ended in 1865, the South lay in ruins, millions of enslaved Black people had been legally freed, and the social order he had devoted himself to protecting was […]
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