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Mike Purzycki
Coverage of Mike Purzycki in the Nexus archive.
- ‘Directly enslaving at least 26 people’: New report details Caesar Rodney’s slaveholding amid debate over statue’s fate
A new report reveals Delaware statesman Caesar Rodney enslaved at least 26 people, contradicting his role in signing the Declaration of Independence. The city of Wilmington commissioned the report amid debates over his statue’s removal, which was stored in 2020 due to racial unrest following George Floyd’s death.