![]() ![]() ![]() This trade was older and more pervasive than the more famous West African trade. Bush hail from the New England slave trading Walker family.īarack Obama’s Kenyan family, as part of the Luo tribe, most certainly engaged in the East African slave trade selling Africans to Muslims. The Clinton campaign crafted Confederate Battle Flag “Clinton/Gore” pins in 1992. Roosevelt, Wilson, and Carter, while Presidents Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton all had Confederate ancestors as well. Of these nineteen, thirteen had family members who fought for the Confederacy: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Lincoln, A. ![]() Nineteen presidents either were slaveholders, from slaveholding families, or were married into slaveholding families: If the current goal is to purge any reminder of slavery and the Confederacy from the public sphere, then nearly every American president would have to be withdrawn from our historical consciousness. American history would not be the same without it. The current pogrom against Southern history and symbols ignores the influence the South and the institution of slavery had on most American presidents. ![]()
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