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Links?

[Jim from C-Town]

http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_citizen_abolitionist.html
on Franklin

http://www.factcheck.org/2007/12/presidents-who-owned-slaves/

Grant owned a slave named William Jones, whom he freed in 1859.

[Jim from C-Town]

Slavery was legal in every U.S. Colony prior to the revolution. A vast majority of the signers of the Declaration of Independance and the Constitution where slave holders.