Flutterby™! : Slave holders in Congress

Who owned slaves in Congress? The Washington Post looks at the recent database of slave ownership in congress.

William Richardson, for example, a Democrat who fought for the Confederacy, died in office in 1914 after representing Alabama for 14 years. Another Democrat, Rebecca Latimer Felton, a suffragist and a white supremacist, was appointed to fill a Senate vacancy in 1922 and briefly represented Georgia at age 87. The first woman ever to serve in the Senate was a former slaveholder.

And yes, it also talks about the more than 480 slave owners who identified as Republican at some point during their elected careers.