Every dwelling US president descendant of slave householders, even Barack Obama. Nevertheless… | World News

All current and former dwelling US presidents have had not lower than one ancestor who used to non-public slaves, an investigation by data firm Reuters found. The genealogies of “America’s political elite” data confirmed that US president Joe Biden and all of his predecessors have descended from ancestors who enslaved Black people.

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

The slaveholding ancestors of dwelling US presidents are:

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

The investigation moreover revealed that two Supreme Court docket docket justices, 11 governors, and 100 members of Congress are direct descendants of slaveholders. Sitting members of Congress who’re linked to slave householders embody not lower than 28 per cent of Republicans and eight per cent of Democrats- along with Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell, Senator Lindsey Graham, Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Duckworth.

“The preponderance of Republicans shows the social gathering’s power inside the South, the place slavery was concentrated. Although white people enslaved Black people in northern states in early America, by the eve of the Civil Battle, slavery was almost absolutely 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 data was collated by the use of gadgets of information contained in 1000’s of pages of paperwork to trace the lineages of the political elite.