21.   It also has a great deal of unpublished information about who owned the slaves, which many prominent white families have never been particularly eager to research.

22.   Judge Beauregard still owned slaves.

23.   Most students today have a hard time dealing with the fact that Jefferson owned slaves and fathered a child by his slave mistress Sally Hemings, Gibbons explained.

24.   My father had a little joke that made light of our legacy as a family that had once owned slaves.

25.   No white American alive today has ever owned a slave, and the vast majority of Americans are descended from non-slaveowners.

26.   Not only did thousands of Southern Jews fight in the Confederate army, but hundreds owned slaves, including an ancestor of the Regensteins.

27.   The great majority of the remainder are the offspring of whites who never owned slaves.

28.   The question is whether Washington deserves the dishonor, just because he owned slaves.

29.   They also stress that many Confederate soldiers did not own slaves.

30.   They never owned slaves.