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Grant was a slave owner.

“Grant was the last US president to have personally owned another human being. Though his father was an abolitionist, Grant married a woman from a slave-owning family and personally directed the labor of enslaved workers at their plantation in Missouri. In[b] 1859, two years before the civil war, he emancipated William Jones, a slave aged around 35 whom he had personally owned.[/b]
During the war, his wife, Julia, traveled with a woman named Jules who was still enslaved, a decision that prompted public condemnation.[b] The Grant family did [u]not[/u] free Jules after President Abraham Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation. Instead, according to the White House Historical Association, Jules ran away.”[/b]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/20/san-francisco-statues-ulysses-s-grant-junipero-serra-francis-scott-key
[/quote]Yes, and that slave was gifted to him, and per your post, Grant let him go. The other slaves were owned by his wife and her family.   [/quote]

You can’t read.[/quote]

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