We’re looking for documents to conclude whether certain members of Congress were or were not slaveholders.
The Post researched more than 5,500 members of Congress — every single member born before 1840 — and found more than 1,700 people who served in Congress and owned human beings at some point in their lives. In the early decades of America’s history
as an independent country, more than half of all congressmen voting on the laws forming the country’s framework were enslavers. To create the database, The Post reviewed 18th- and 19th-century census records and other documents, including wills, journal articles and plantation records. But we couldn’t reach a conclusion on more than 500We’re looking for documents that reveal whether these congressmen were slaveholders. Can you help?You may already have records to share. Maybe you’ve done genealogical research on your family’s connection to one of the congressmen or to one of the people they enslaved.
congressmen in question. If you want to talk more about how this might work in your classroom, or you want the reporter to speak to your students about this project,Most of The Post’s database is already based on the U.S. censuses from 1790 through 1860. There are a host of other records to look at: Wills are very useful, as are tax records, state and local residential records and information about plantations.
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