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  • The family that owns The New York Times were slaveholders: Goodwin

    07/19/2020 9:21:31 AM PDT · by Beave Meister · 28 replies
    New York Post ^ | 7/19/2020 | Michael Goodwin
    It’s far worse than I thought. In addition to the many links between the family that owns The New York Times and the Civil War Confederacy, new evidence shows that members of the extended family were slaveholders. Last Sunday, I recounted that Bertha Levy Ochs, the mother of Times patriarch Adolph S. Ochs, supported the South and slavery. She was caught smuggling medicine to Confederates in a baby carriage and her brother Oscar joined the rebel army. I have since learned that, according to a family history, Oscar Levy fought alongside two Mississippi cousins, meaning at least three members of...