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Delaware’s Caesar Rodney rode into American history in 1776, when he raced from Dover to Philadelphia to cast a decisive vote for independence.
A bronze statue depicting Rodney on a horse stood in downtown Wilmington for more than 100 years before it was taken down in 2020 amid nationwide protests that largely targeted monuments to Confederate leaders and those who held people in slavery. Rodney is said to have owned up to 200 enslaved people…