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Slave master descents in the US government. Complete with photos.
slavery’s descendants | part 1America’s Family Secret
More than 100 U.S. leaders – lawmakers, presidents, governors and justices – have slaveholding ancestors, a Reuters examination found. Few are willing to talk about their ties to America’s “original sin”
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Top U.S. leaders and their unexplored family connections to slavery
Reuters examined how many political elites descend from slaveholders, and asked them what it means to learn the facts behind their own family’s part in slavery.
