Well That’s Awkward: Celebrities Whose Families Owned Slaves
- By
Meg Butler
George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush
Their ancestor Thomas Walker was a notoriously vicious slave trader who transported captive slaves from West Africa to America.
Great-great-great grandfather to H.W. Bush, Thomas Walker built his empire on the slave trade. He was the captain of, master of, or investor in at least 11 slaving voyages to West Africa between 1784 and 1792.
At least five of the Walker family households owned slaves.
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