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Isn't it time we stopped white-washing Bristol's history? It was a center for the slave trade before the Civil War. I haven't studied Bristol's history in detail, but I suspect that "America's most patriotic town" used displays of patriotism as a shield against criticism for its immoral slave-trading industry.
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