Mr. William Casby. Born A Slave In America In 1857

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In 1963, the photographer Richard Avedon took a picture of a man named William Casby.

William Casby, born in 1857, was 106 years old at the time.

In his hands, he was holding his great, great, granddaughter, Cherri Stamps McCray.

The image is amazing because the elderly gentleman holding his descendant so tenderly, was born into slavery more than a century prior.

Casby would eventually live until 1970, dying at the age of 113.

His great and great grandchildren are alive today, and many of them remember him.

It puts into perspective just how relatively recent slavery existed. Because as far away and distant as it may feel now. Even in modern-day America, there are people who have active memories of talking to former slaves.

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• At least 100 members of the last sitting Congress are direct descendants of ancestors who enslaved Black people, representing at least 8% of Democrats in Congress and 28% of Republicans.
• The group includes Republican senators Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton and James Lankford, and Democrats Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth, Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan.
• President Joe Biden and every living former U.S. president except Donald Trump are direct descendants of slaveholders: Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
• Governors of 11 of the 50 U.S. states in 2022 were descendants of slaveholders, as were two U.S. Supreme Court justices.
• The Congressional slaveholding ancestors were among the richest in America before the Civil War; three-quarters were among the richest 10%.
• In researching America’s political elite, Reuters found names of more than 700 people enslaved by ancestors of the leaders.
• Some 23% of respondents to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll said knowing that a candidate’s ancestors enslaved people would make them less likely to vote for that candidate, and white respondents who said they’re aware of having a slaveholding ancestor were more likely than other white people to support paying reparations for slavery.

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