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Martha Frick Symington Sanger

His reputation obscures a complex man haunted by tragedy

History is full of misnomers that, like it or not, we are stuck with. Columbus, understandably confused about where he was, thought the people he encountered in the Bahamas were “Indians.” Like it or not, they have been ever since.

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