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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]
And you are holier than thou.

Slavery was an acceptable institution across many countries around the world throughout history. Africans owned white slaves, too.

As evil as slavery is I am not going to enforce my modern day morals on cultures from hundreds of years ago.

Grant, Lincoln, Washington were great men, but were human nonetheless, and lived within their morals of their time.

Some of you are really ridiculous. You'd better hope that in 50 years, when your kids are older, they don't try to apply the same standards to your way of parenting to current standards, otherwise, you will be found sorely lacking.[/quote]

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