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John Rollin Ridge is a tricky figure: he killed a man and was unabashedly racist. Yet, he also embraced interracial marriage, opposed Confederate secession and championed Cherokee statehood. His 1868 “Poems” captures the roiling amalgam of his views: buff.ly/4ak8J7i