{"id":29524,"date":"2022-01-12T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/more-than-1700-congressmen-once-enslaved-black-people#id31252"},"modified":"2022-01-12T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:04:00","slug":"a-new-database-shows-more-than-1700-congressmen-in-the-18th-19th-and-20th-centuries-owned-humans-at-some-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/a-new-database-shows-more-than-1700-congressmen-in-the-18th-19th-and-20th-centuries-owned-humans-at-some-point\/","title":{"rendered":"A new database shows more than 1,700 congressmen in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries owned humans at some point."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>For the first 18 years of American lawmaking, from 1789 to 1807, more than half the men elected to Congress each session were slaveholders.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/interactive\/2022\/congress-slaveowners-names-list\/\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/more-than-1700-congressmen-once-enslaved-black-people\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        For the first 18 years of American lawmaking, from 1789 to 1807, more than half the men elected to Congress each session were slaveholders.<\/p>\n<p>        &#x21A9;&#xFE0E; The Washington Post<\/p>\n<p>  View Po&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29525,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29524\/revisions\/29525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}