11.   He never owned slaves and never fought a duel with deadly weapons.

12.   He owned slaves, several hundred, found them commercially valuable, then continued to dither famously over the gap in his logic.

13.   How does one explain that some black people owned slaves during U.S. slavery?

14.   I have ancestors who fought for the Confederacy, none of whom owned slaves.

15.   I never in my life owned any slaves.

16.   I was not taught that Jefferson owned slaves, or that Crockett was a mercenary.

17.   I asked how people who spoke of freedom could own slaves.

18.   If only a tiny minority of Southerners owned slaves, I know of no uprising of Southern nonslave owners who struggled to overturn slavery.

19.   In its earliest days, students and professors and at least two university presidents owned slaves.

20.   Indeed, while six of the first eight U.S. presidents owned slaves, the Adamses from abolition-minded Massachusetts did not.