Six years after the city of Wilmington, Delaware, took it down in the midst of Black Lives Matter protests that roiled the United States, the National Park Service plans to reinstate a statue of Caesar Rodney—a signer of the Declaration of Independence who enslaved more than 200 people at the plantation he owned—in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. As reported by the *Washington Post*, which cited Interior Department documents obtained by the paper, the statue’s resurrection is a planned part of the nation’s 250th birthday celebration this summer. The statue would stand for up to six months on a concourse on Pennsylvania Avenue in the plaza named in tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. When asked to confirm the plan, an Interior Department spokesperson told the *Post*, “As we approach America’s 250th anniversary, the Trump administration has been committed to celebrating and acknowledging the full breadth of our nation’s history, including the story of Caesar Rodney and his pivotal ride in July 1776.…