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Lists of United States public officials who owned slaves

This is a list of lists of United States public officials who owned slaves:

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)

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References

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  1. ^ 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.