More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation.
By Julie Zauzmer Weil, Adrian Blanco and Leo Dominguez 1/10/22 From the founding of the United States until long after the Civil War, hundreds of the elected leaders writing the nation’s laws were current or former slaveowners. More than 1,700 people who served in the U.S. Congress in the 18th, 19th, and even 20th centuries owned human beings at some…
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