[jeffersondem]

“No (Didn’t Grant’s wife claim to own slaves?).”

According to Julia Grant, “Eliza, Dan, Jule, and John belonged to me up to the time of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.”

Comes presently the Committee for the Protection of General Grant's Legacy to note officially that, as a woman, Julia Grant was too whimsical and ignorant to know whether she did or did not own slaves.

The Committee claims only one of the men responsible for Julia Grant - Mr. Grant or Mr. Dent - can be relied upon to make a trustworthy declaration. The claim will reappear in 3 . . 2. . . 1

[BroJoeK]

jeffersondem: "Comes presently the Committee for the Protection of General Grant's Legacy to note officially that, as a woman, Julia Grant was too whimsical and ignorant to know whether she did or did not own slaves."

Irrelevant whether Julia or Grant owned slaves at some point, because they were Democrats and Democrats often owned slaves.
The relevant question is: when did Democrat Grant first become a Republican?

According to this source it was around the time of his victory at Vicksburg, July 1863.
That was six months after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which as jeffersondem quotes:

"Eliza, Dan, Jule, and John belonged to me up to the time of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation."

So the question remains, can we name a certifiable Republican who still owned slaves as a Republican?

[DoodleDawg]

Comes presently the Committee for the Protection of General Grant's Legacy to note officially that, as a woman, Julia Grant was too whimsical and ignorant to know whether she did or did not own slaves.

When did she make the claim?