While a heated debate is going on around the world regarding slave reparations, a Mormon Church funded world’s largest slavery database aims to help African Americans trace their enslaved ancestors. Tracing slave ancestors within the United States is relatively easy, but it is far more difficult to trace family records past "the water's edge" from America back to Africa. Recently, shocking new evidence suggested that the founders of the New York Times were slaveowners and even traded in minors.
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