Tag: Slaveholders

For Years, Wikipedia Pages on Slaveholders Have Gone Untouched. It’s Time to Change That.Pages on Slaveholders

My fourth great-grandfather Valcour Aime was hailed as a philanthropist, agricultural pioneer, and “the very model of a Louisiana grand seigneur.” And that’s just his Wikipedia entry. In the decades prior to the Civil War, Aime was the largest sugar producer in the world. The ...