Weekly magazines found under the statue of a Confederate general in a time capsule

(Richmond Reuters = Yonhap News) On the 28th (local time), Virginia state antiquities expert Sue Donovan opened the time capsule found the day before at the site where the statue of General Robert Lee of the Confederacy in Richmond was demolished and read the weekly magazine ‘Ha’. A review of the 1865 edition of Harper’s Weekly. The magazine features illustrations showing a woman mourning in front of the grave of former President Abraham Lincoln. Books, money, ammunition, some papers and other items were found in this time capsule, believed to have been buried in 1887. The statue of General Lee was demolished in September in the aftermath of protests against racism across the United States over the murder of a black man, George Floyd, last year. 2021.12.29

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