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The Lambs owned slaves, and Egbert's grandfather was a Confederate captain who fought to keep them.
NPR: Edward R. Murrow: Broadcasting History
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Hamilton co-founded New York's Manumission Society at a time when one-fifth of the city owned slaves.
ECONOMIST: A hero gets his due at last
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Yet half the signers also owned slaves as did Jefferson, for another half-century until his death.
FORBES: Honoring Alexander Hamilton, The Great American Revolutionary
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He next wants to purge the names of four mixed-race New Orleanians who owned slaves despite being part-black themselves.
ECONOMIST: Washington vanishes
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Researchers at University College London (UCL) have just finished a three-year study of British slave-owners and found the ancestors of novelists George Orwell and Graham Greene and the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott all owned slaves.
BBC: How many Britons are descended from slave-owners?
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Six of the brothers owned slaves.
ECONOMIST: Retracing the steps of one 18th-century Scottish family
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The victors write the history books, so the North wrote the history on slavery and very conveniently painted it solely as a Southern sin, whereas in fact the Northern colonies and states owned slaves for over 200 years and were the main slave traders.
CNN: Obama on slavery: 'Capacity for cruelty still exists'
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In 1858, writes Mr. Levine, there were nearly 60, 000 Americans who owned at least 20 slaves.
WSJ: Book Review: The Fall of the House of Dixie
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Known as Freedman, these blacks are descended from slaves once owned by the Nation.
NPR: Cherokee Nation Faces New Battle
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Former slaves began forming the privately owned college, then the Colored Industrial and Agricultural School, before the turn of the 20th century to offer a place for the children of black farmers to go to school.
CNN: Grambling State University