EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Mitch McConnell's great-great-grandfathers owned 14 slaves, bringing reparations issue close to home
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said recently he opposes paying government reparations to the descendants of American slaves, has a family history deeply entwined in the issue: Two of his great-great-grandfathers owned a total of 14 slaves in Limestone County, Alabama, U.S. census records show.
The details about McConnell’s ancestors, discovered by NBC News through a search of ancestry and census records, came in the wake of recent House hearings on reparations. Asked about the reparations issue, McConnell, R-Ky., said he was opposed to the idea, arguing it would be hard to figure out whom to compensate.
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