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Below is a reference to the slaveholder status of 21 of the most prominent signatories of the Declaration of Independence. A full two thirds of these individuals were slaveholders.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1269536/The-Founding-Fathers-and-Slavery

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