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appomattox
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What does appomattox mean?
noun
- Alternative form of Appomattoc.
proper noun
- A river in Virginia, United States; in full, the Appomattox River.
- A town, the county seat of Appomattox County, Virginia, United States, formerly known as Nebraska and Appomattox Station
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proper noun
- A historic village in Appomattox County, Virginia, United States, formerly the county seat, also known as Clover Hill and Appomattox Court House
- The 1865 surrender of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant's Union army, which occurred at Appomattox Court House at the end of the American Civil War.
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The problem, How to maintain the institution of chattel slavery, ceased to be at Appomattox; the problem, How to maintain the social, industrial, and civic inferiority of the descendants of chattel slaves, succeeded it, and is the race problem of the South at the present time.