By: Keith Klein (Photo: MapsoftheWorld.com)
One-third of Indiana’s 92 counties are named for men who had ties to slavery or supported otherwise racist policies. IU history professor Eric Sandweiss, says that reflects slavery’s inescapable legacy across the country. Indiana’s counties were named during the early- to mid-1800s before the nation’s divide over the issue of slavery reached its violent peak.
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