Beto O’Rourke: My wife and I have slave-owners as ancestors

Date: Jul 15 2019

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke acknowledged Sunday that his ancestors, as well as his wife Amy’s, had owned slaves. O’Rourke wrote in a post on Medium that his paternal great-great-great grandfather enslaved two women in the 1850s. His maternal great-great-great grandfather, he added, “most likely” also owned slaves.

  • This article originally appeared on HuffPost.

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