Before their emancipation, 12 US Presidents owned slaves - obviously, this practice stopped before the civil war. Some of those slaves and their "masters" are famous - everyone now knows, for example, that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings, his slave; from accounts, they appeared to have had a relationship that was more than just sexual.
Today's question, off of Pocket Trivia: US History - Who was the last President to own slaves? Was it Ulyssess S. Grant, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson or Abraham Lincoln?
The correct answer to this one is Ulysses Grant. Grant freed his slave in 1859, two years before the civil war.
However, Grant never owned slaves as President. The last President to own slaves while sitting as President was Zachary Taylor, who owned slaves until his death in 1851.
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