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$1 million in Virginia public funding sponsored “Lost Cause” film in 2013

by Kristin Reed and Tom Nash

February 11, 2019

Before Virginia Military Institute cadets were photographed in blackface in yearbooks, they fought to preserve slavery during the Civil War in the Battle of New Market. The 2015 film Field of Lost Shoes - produced with $1 million in Virginia public funds - chronicles that battle.

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