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Originally Posted by susantabler@yahoo.com
I believe Grant owned some slaves.
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Wrong! Grant's father owned slaves and he hated it. He left home when his father put him in military school. As an adult he never owned a slave, he actually went in the military then quit to go farm and almost went bankrupt trying to farm by himself. When that failed he rejoined the Union army at the request of the Illinois Governor. After the war he got caught up in a ponzi scheme with his son, and lost everything. He spent his last days writing his memoirs before dying of cancer. Never owning a single slave.