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Future African leaders get crash course in U.S. history

07/23/2014

For Emmanuel Ndlovu and Edmar Nhaga, their tours of the homes of America's Founding Fathers were rich with symbolism.As they walked through the carefully preserved mansion house at Montpelier, President James Madison's plantation in Orange County, they weren't allowed to touch anything or take any pictures.But when they toured a nearby slave cabin, the place was wide open. They had free rein to do as they liked. For the young Africans, the contrast says something about how America deals with the legacy of slavery.
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