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Person Place Thing featuring writer Emily Raboteau

Emily Raboteau
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This writer admires John James Audubon as a naturalist and an artist, especially his magisterial Birds of America, an affection many people share. “But fewer people know about him as a slave owner and a white supremacist.” Birds, beauty, climate change, and racial justice: it’s complicated and delightfully so.