NBC News, in several phone calls and emails to McConnell’s office, asked if the senator was aware that his great-great-grandfathers were slave owners. The office did not respond to those requests.

"People in non-slave areas - Britain and free US states - routinely did business with slave owners and slave commerce," says Gavin Wright, ...

The Proclamation and the Non-Slave holders. Share full article. Nov. 14, 1862. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from November 14, 1862, Page 4 Buy ...

Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke revealed Sunday that he and his wife are descended from slave owners, according to documents he said he received recently. The former House ...

At the meeting of descendants of enslaved people and slave owners on Tuesday, Trevelyan spoke of her family’s decision to apologize to Grenada and to make a contribution of £100,000 (about ...

Descendants of Slave Owners and Enslaved People in the Caribbean Call for Reparations at the UN UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William ...

For the first time, descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in former British colonies in the Caribbean sat at the same table with diplomats and experts from those nations discussing the co… ...