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On December 27, workers were dismantling a statue depicting General Robert E. Lee when they discovered a "time capsule", or time box, believed to have been buried 130 years ago. five. Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870) was a General who led the Confederate army in the American Civil War (1861-1865) and represented the opposition to the abolition of slavery.
The time box was discovered while dismantling a statue depicting General Robert E. Lee.
This is the second time box unearthed at the site. On Twitter, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam wrote: "They found it (timebox). This could be the timebox everyone is looking for." Governor Northham's post was accompanied by an image of the newly found bronze box.
According to an 1887 article, a time box hidden at the base of General Robert E. Lee's statue contained relics such as bullets, Confederate currency, maps, a rare photograph of the President American assassinated Abraham Lincoln lies in coffins and other items. Conservators opened a shoebox-sized receptacle found in the statue's stone base last week but clearly not the timebox mentioned in the 1887 article .
Accordingly, the first box was discovered containing three waterlogged books, including the yearbook of 875, a photograph in a soggy cloth bag and a coin. The items appear to be memorabilia left to posterity by some of the craftsmen who erected the statue. The recently discovered time box is twice the size. Governor Northam said archaeologists will study this time box.
The statue of General Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia is one of several Confederate pro-slavery monuments to have been dismantled in recent months. Last year, this monument became the focus of anti-racism protests after the violent police abuse caused the death of black man George Floyd in Minnesota.
The statue of General Robert E. Lee, erected in 1890, is among hundreds of monuments honoring the Confederacy (including 11 states that supported slavery during the American Civil War) that exist across the United States. . They were seen as symbols of racism and reminiscent of the history of slavery.
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