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Justice Taney
manumitted "most (but not all)" of his slaves as young man and was "deeply committed to slavery" throughout his life
[1]
(
Brady-Handy collection
, Library of Congress)
This is a list of
lists of United States public officials who owned slaves
:
List of presidents of the United States who owned slaves
List of vice presidents of the United States who owned slaves
List of members of the United States Congress who owned slaves
List of United States Supreme Court Justices who owned slaves
See also
John Quincy Adams and abolitionism
Slavery in the District of Columbia
References
^
Finkelman, Paul (2018).
Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation's Highest Court
. The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. pp. 7, 184.
ISBN
9780674051218
.
LCCN
2017021771
.
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:
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