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FSU committee votes to move Eppes statue

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Florida State University students voted overwhelmingly in 2016 to keep a statue of Francis Eppes, a grandson of Thomas Jefferson widely credited as one of FSU's founders, but a 15-member committee is now recommending its removal.

FSU's Students for a Democratic Society chapter applauded the committee, saying that Eppes does not belong on campus because he was a slave owner whose role in founding the university has been exaggerated.
 
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