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

He next wants to purge the names of four mixed-race New Orleanians who owned slaves despite being part-black themselves.

ECONOMIST: Washington vanishes

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?

Six of the brothers owned slaves.

ECONOMIST: Retracing the steps of one 18th-century Scottish family

Known as Freedman, these blacks are descended from slaves once owned by the Nation.

NPR: Cherokee Nation Faces New Battle

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