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Originally Posted by Grapesoda
not true by at all, meant male property owners. not defined by color...
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Twelve of our presidents owned slaves and eight of them owned slaves while serving as president:
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Of the first five presidents, four owned slaves. All four of these owned slaves while they were president.
Of the next five presidents (#6-10), four owned slaves. Only two of them owned slaves while they were president.
Of the next five presidents (#11-15), two owned slaves. Both of these two owned slaves while they were president.
Of the next three presidents (#16-18) two owned slaves. neither of them owned slaves while serving as president.
The last president to own slaves while in office was the twelfth president, Zachary Taylor (1849-1850).
The last president to own slaves at all was the eighteenth president, Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877).
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Your interpretation makes one wonder why the US fought a Civil War (largely over the issue of slavery), or why Congress passed the 15th Amendment ["The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."] (1870), and the Voting Rights Act, which eliminated most of the Jim Crow laws that were also used to deny people of color equal voting rights (1965).
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