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Monument honoring abolition of slavery vandalized in France

| June 11, 2020 10:03 AM

PARIS (AP) — Vandals have defaced a monument celebrating the abolition of slavery in southern France, in an apparent response to growing anger over entrenched racism and calls for the removal of monuments to historical figures tied to colonialism and the slave trade.

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