May 16, 2024
Ulysses S. Grant was the last U.S. president to have ever owned a slave. Though born in the free state of Ohio, Grant married the daughter of a slave-owning farmer and benefited from slave labor. Grant’s father-in-law gave him an enslaved person in the late 1850s. Grant freed him in 1859.
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How Many of the Signers of the U.S. Constitution Were Enslavers?
Numerous men who signed the Constitution also enslaved people. The exact number is disputed.
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