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@EricColumbus ("Eric Columbus") wrote:
This is incredible work and the article is well worth your time. Among much else: every Congress until 1914 contained a member who had owned another human being.
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@juliezweil ("Julie Zauzmer Weil") wrote:
Today I’m proud to publish a Washington Post project that I’ve worked on for a year: The first list of every historical slaveowner in the U.S. Congress.
More than 1,700 slaveholders were elected to Congress, over a period of well over a century.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list