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"How many of our presidents owned slaves? 

There are two ways of interpreting your question. Either: How many presidents owned slaves at some point in their lives? Or: How many presidents owned slaves while serving as chief executive? Many books get the answers to these questions wrong, and when I speak on the presidents and ask these two questions, audiences invariably low-ball the answer to both.



It comes as a shock to most Americans’ sensibilities that more than one in four U.S. presidents were slaveholder,..."