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Award-winning historian Robert Pierce Forbes discusses his book, Notes on the State of Virginia: An Annotated Edition. The recently published book explains how Jefferson realized his Virginian-centered vision of the United States, and revised the soaring affirmation of his Declaration that “all men are created equal.”

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