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How Many Top U.S. Politicians Are Direct Descendants of Slaveholders by groundedhistory0 is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Reuters investigated the ancestry of over 600 U.S. politicians to determine how many are direct descendants of slaveholders. The research identified 118 political leaders, including 100 members of Congress, 11 governors, and 5 presidents, as having ancestral ties to slavery. The findings were corroborated by genealogists and were shared with the politicians involved, none of whom disputed the results.
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