Key Points
At least 100 members of the last sitting Congress in the United States are direct descendants of ancestors who enslaved Black people, representing at least eight per cent of Democrats in Congress and 28 per cent of Republicans, a recent investigation has found...
In addition, US President Joe Biden and every living former president of the country, except Donald Trump, are direct descendants of slaveholders: Jimmy Carter, George W Bush, Bill Clinton -- and through his white mother's side -- Barack Obama...
These 100 members also include a fifth of the nation's congressmen, living presidents, Supreme Court justices and governors, the investigation by Reuters suggests...
According to Reuters' research, a total of 118 leaders with ancestral ties to slavery were identified. 100 members of the 117th Congress 11 governors 5 presidents 2 sitting Supreme Court justices ..
The investigation, however, could not establish how the proportion of leaders who descend from slaveholders compares to that of all Americans.. The lineages of the political elites were traced after consulting thousands of documents, census records, slave schedules, tax documents, estate records, newspaper accounts, birth and death certificates, etc..
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