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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Oliver O'Connell

Confederate statue that residents protested every weekend for 3 years is removed in North Carolina

A historic and picturesque town in North Carolina has removed a Confederate statue from its downtown after long-running weekly protests against it.

The bronze figure of a soldier was carefully removed from its stone base on the waterfront of Edenton just after midnight on Sunday morning and placed into storage at the county jail. It is set to be relocated to outside the Chown County Courthouse.

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