article_snippet.sent: Another was named today by The Sun as James McGuire, who kept eight slaves on his farm in what is now Trenton in New Jersey in the 1840s.
article_snippet.sent: US genealogist Debra Fleming told the Sun: 'There are lots of farmers in the family.
article_snippet.sent: Slavery didn't end in New Jersey until 1846.'
article_snippet.sent: Prof Henry Louis Gates Jr. After an exhaustive search of my ancestry for 'Finding Your Roots,' it was discovered that one of my distant relatives was an owner of slaves.
article_snippet.sent: While I don't like that the guy is an ancestor, I am happy that aspect of our country's history is being talked about.