🇺🇸 **More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation.**

"_The Washington Post has compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents_"

🔗 https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/.

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