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The Choctaw Donation
The Choctaw donation is the story that probably gets brought up more than any other. The scale of suffering was titanic enough by the late 1840s that the great and good felt a need to donate. Queen Victoria gives 2,000 pounds; Chuck E. Trevalion gives 25. "I have capacity for all that because I've suffered"