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<DIV>Virginia Legislature:</DIV>
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<DIV>...The resolution says government-sanctioned slavery "ranks as the most
horrendous of all depredations of human rights and violations of our founding
ideals in our nation's history, and the abolition of slavery was followed by
systematic discrimination, enforced segregation, and other insidious
institutions and practices toward Americans of African descent that were rooted
in racism, racial bias, and racial misunderstanding."</DIV></BODY></HTML>