Each dwelling US president descendant of slave house owners, even Barack Obama. However… | World News

All present and former dwelling US presidents have had not less than one ancestor who used to personal slaves, an investigation by information company Reuters discovered. The genealogies of “America’s political elite” knowledge confirmed that US president Joe Biden and all of his predecessors have descended from ancestors who enslaved Black folks.

Even Barack Obama — US' first Black president — is the descendant of a slaveowner from his mom's facet of the household, it discovered. The one exception to that is former US president Donald Trump.

The slaveholding ancestors of dwelling US presidents are:

1. George Bush — One director ancestor, six generations eliminated, owned 25 slaves
2. Invoice Clinton — One director ancestor, 5 generations eliminated, owned one slaves
3. Jimmy Carter — One director ancestor, 4 generations eliminated, owned 54 slaves
4. Barack Obama — One director ancestor, six generations eliminated, owned two slaves
5. Joe Biden — One direct ancestor, 5 generations eliminated, owned one slave

The investigation additionally revealed that two Supreme Court docket justices, 11 governors, and 100 members of Congress are direct descendants of slaveholders. Sitting members of Congress who're linked to slave house owners embrace not less than 28 per cent of Republicans and eight per cent of Democrats- together with Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell, Senator Lindsey Graham, Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Duckworth.

“The preponderance of Republicans displays the celebration’s power within the South, the place slavery was concentrated. Though white folks enslaved Black folks in northern states in early America, by the eve of the Civil Battle, slavery was nearly solely a southern enterprise,” the Reuters report claimed.

Donald Trump's ancestors immigrated to the USA solely after slavery was abolished in 1865, Reuters reported. The info was collated by means of items of data contained in hundreds of pages of paperwork to hint the lineages of the political elite.