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In the weeks leading up to this year’s Symposium, entitled “Vestiges of the Confederacy: Reckoning with the Legacy of the South,” I have spent some time reflecting upon the title of the Symposium and what the Symposium hopes to accomplish. The mandate is clear: we are meant to be gathering so that we can reckon with the legacy of the American South. But there is not just one legacy to consider, and in any case, reckoning with the Confederacy requires more than a day’s work.
Marissa Jackson Sow *
* Associate Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law. LL.M., The London School of Economics and Political Science; J.D., Columbia Law School; B.A., Northwestern University.