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# More than 100 U.S. political elites have family links to slavery
- URL: https://werd.io/more-than-100-us-political-elites-have-family-links-to/
- Published: 2023-06-27T14:28:03.000Z
- Updated: 2023-06-27T14:28:03.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:21

“More than 100 U.S. leaders – lawmakers, presidents, governors and justices – have slaveholding ancestors, a Reuters examination found. Few are willing to talk about their ties to America's “original sin”.” [#Society](https://werd.io/tag/Society)

\[[Link](https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-lawmakers/)\]