Conservative Southern Values Revived: How a Brutal Strain of American Aristocrats Have Come to Rule

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71. The Roosevelts made their first fortune in sugar -- using slave workers.

That old sugar-house was the first erected before the Revolution, and worked during the war and for forty years afterward. The proprietor who built it, and who manufactured sugar in it, was a great man in his day and generation.

His name was Isaac Roosevelt. His house faced on Queen Street, now Pearl, in Franklin Square. Harper & Brothers now own that property, and it is No. 333 Pearl Street. On the rear of his house and in the centre of the block was the sugar-house. A large alleyway ran up to it from what is now No. 8 Jacob Street. The Isaac Roosevelt mansion was originally 159 Queen Street. To understand the matter, Queen Street in those days of 1786, when the sugar-house and the old mansion were in their glory, commenced at Wall Street and extended to Chatham, ending there, within a few rods of the great fresh water pond.... Almost opposite to Isaac Roosevelt's residence (No. 159 Queen Street, now 333 Pearl and part of 331) stood an old building, and it yet stands (1863) as 324 and 326 Pearl, and is called now, and has been for sixty years, part of the Walton House. In 1786 it was occupied by the Bank of New York, of which Isaac Roosevelt was president.

http://www.oldandsold.com/articles14/new-york-45.shtml

The family stayed in the sugar business a long time -- they had interests in the west indies slave sugar business too.

Bush ancestors benefited from slavery too -- cotton, in their case.

JFK being the child of recent irish immigrants of non-aristocratic backgrounds was the only one who didn't benefit from slavery so far as i know.

scratch an elite family in the us, you'll find slaves lurking somewhere if they've been here a long time.