For the past 108 years, the Peace Monument has greeted visitors walking through the Piedmont Park gate at 14th Street.
The inscription below the statue tells the story of a group of Confederate veterans and their attempt to reconcile with the North after the Civil War.
But it offers no context as to the main reason the war was fought: slavery. Nor does it mentioned the discrimination African Americans faced during the Reconstruction period.
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