31.   Though the Five Civilized Tribes conformed to Southern mores by adopting Christianity and owning slaves, whites still saw them as standing in the way of settlement.

32.   True, many of our individual ancestors never owned slaves.

33.   Toney said her mother lived on a sugar cane plantation, and the family had owned slaves.

34.   We do not strip the names from memorials to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison or Andrew Jackson because those great leaders owned slaves.

35.   Washington was dumped because, like every major Southern landowner of the Revolutionary period, he owned slaves.

36.   When Southern Baptists created their own denomination, it left them free to own slaves.

37.   Yes, Thomas Jefferson owned slaves.

38.   And, while he owned slaves, I think his articulation of these freedoms planted the seeds that resulted in ultimately doing away with slavery.

39.   McCain said this month he was surprised to be shown documents indicating his ancestors owned slaves on their plantation in Mississippi.

40.   The eloquent, intellectual author of the Declaration of Independence owned slaves, believed black people were inferior and did little to oppose the spread of slavery.