In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, ...

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.

A table for each slave state documenting the number of slaves and slave owners is found beginning on page 223 of the 1860 Census report "Agriculture of the United States in 1860." ...

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

George Mason was a conflicted slave owner. October 8, 2019 More than ... His objective on slavery was to not allow it to spread to non-slave states, thereby limiting the damage.

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 ...

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 ...

The other slave societies in human history -- and you can get up a real debate over this, especially among Africanists, Brazilianists, Asianists and others, and it's why slavery is such a hot ...

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 ...

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, including on X, Reddit and Facebook. As we previously reported, this ...