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  2. List of members of the United States Congress who owned ...

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    Breckenridge defended states' rights in regards to slavery and defended the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. He also supported manumission and African colonization. He also supported manumission and African colonization.

  3. John Shelton (actor) - Wikipedia

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    Shelton, also known as John Price, was born in Los Angeles, California. [1] He was the grandson of creationist George McCready Price. He named one of his sons Darwin to "balance everything out". [2] Shelton was married five times. His first four marriages were childless and ended in divorce, while he and his fifth wife had four children before ...

  4. List of last survivors of American slavery - Wikipedia

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    Purportedly the last living former slave in New York; she was born into slavery in Westchester County. [37] Likely not the last living former slave, because final emancipation in New York did not occur until July 5, 1827. Venus Rowe ca. 1754: 1844: Purportedly one of the last living former slaves in Massachusetts, resided in Burlington ...

  5. John W. Shelton - Wikipedia

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    John W. Shelton (August 8, 1928 – April 1, 2014) was an American businessman and politician. Born in Lockwood, West Virginia , Shelton was a businessman who owned Shelton Trucking Company and Mid-State Industrial Lubricates.

  6. Slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In The Universal Law of Slavery, Fitzhugh argues that slavery provides everything necessary for life and that the slave is unable to survive in a free world because he is lazy, and cannot compete with the intelligent European white race. He states that "The negro slaves of the South are the happiest, and in some sense, the freest people in the ...

  7. Shelby Foote - Wikipedia

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    Shelby Dade Foote Jr. (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was an American writer, historian and journalist. [1] Although he primarily viewed himself as a novelist, he is now best known for his authorship of The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume history of the American Civil War.

  8. Samuel Seabury - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Seabury grew up in an economy based on slavery, and in a slaveholding family. His father legally owned at least one slave, Newport, who is marked in his will. [3] Samuel Seabury became a slaveholder when he married Mary Hicks on October 12, 1756. Seabury's father-in-law, Edward Hicks, gifted his daughter with an enslaved woman. [4]

  9. John Swanson Jacobs - Wikipedia

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    John Jacobs was born in Edenton, North Carolina, in 1815. His mother was Delilah Horniblow, a slave of the Horniblow family who owned a local tavern. [b] The father of John and his sister Harriet (born 1813) was Elijah Knox. [6] Elijah Knox, although enslaved, was in some ways privileged because he was an expert carpenter. He died in 1826. [7]

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