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	<title>The Living Consequences &#187; Slaveowning</title>
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	<description>Exploring the Legacy of Slavery and Race in the United States</description>
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		<title>Obama and McCain&#8217;s families owned slaves</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post addresses the fact that the families of both Barack Obama and John McCain owned slaves. This week, I&#8217;ve encountered a number of questions about that slave-owning past and its significance today. The facts Barack Obama is not descended from American slaves, but his family did own slaves themselves. This is not because his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain&#8217;s family ties to slavery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent news reports have publicized the fact that John McCain&#8217;s family owned slaves in the pre-Civil War South. As Douglas Blackmon related on the pages of the Wall Street Journal last Friday, Senator McCain&#8217;s great-great-grandfather owned a 2,000-acre plantation in Teoc, Mississippi where about 120 slaves labored in bondage. Today at the Huffington Post, Abby [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Bush Family&#8217;s Slaveholding Past&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed Ball, the author of the award-winning Slaves in the Family and an early supporter of Traces of the Trade, has a fascinating essay at The Root, unpacking the slave-owning history of the Bush family. The essay starts with the brief observation in Jacob Weisberg&#8217;s The Bush Tragedy that the ancestors of presidents George H.W. and [...]]]></description>
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