slave-owning

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slave owning

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If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of the whites, even though for most of the time on the plantations black people outnumbered whites by a ratio of seven to one. Edward Ball

The national anthem, “The Star Spangled Banner,” by a slave-owning Washington lawyer, Francis Scott Key, who to African-Americans as “a distinct and inferior race of people.” Source: Internet

Some of the founders may have been slave-owning hypocrites, and some of their descendants were equally flawed racists. Source: Internet

The federal government got involved at an opportune time, because the slave-owning consensus at the state level was fracturing. Source: Internet

He married into a slave-owning family, but had no problem fighting to end slavery. Source: Internet

This system was originally designed to bribe slave-owning states into joining the union. Source: Internet

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