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C. DR Congo is the largest country by area in sub-Saharan Africa - the region south of the Saharan Desert. It straddles the Equator, and the Congo Rainforest is the second-largest rain forest behind the Amazon. It gained independence from Belgium in 1960.
B. Colston was a 17th century slave trader whose ships are believed to have transported about 80,000 men, women and children from Africa to the Americas. The slave trade helped make Bristol a major English port. Officials in London last week removed the statue of another slave trader.
A. The 1492 journey of Christopher Columbus to the Americas opened the way for European conquest, colonization and enslavement of native Americans. After native Americans were decimated by European diseases, Africans were enslaved and shipped across the Atlantic. Forest, Jefferson and Lee were all southern slave owners.
B. White nationalists and neo-Nazis, chanting “Jews will not replace us,” protested attempts by Charlottesville officials to remove a Lee statue. A white supremacist rammed his car into a group of counter-protesters killing, Heather Heyer, 32. President Donald Trump said “their were very fine people on both sides” of the protests and called Lee a “great general.”