descendants
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Last week, Newsom signed Senate Bill 518, which will create a new office called the Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2025
Descendants of enslaved island populations in the South became known as Gullah, or Geechee in Georgia.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2024
Descendants of the reforming 19th-Century statesman William Gladstone apologised to the people of Guyana, in response to their family's links to slave ownership.
From BBC • Oct. 27, 2023
By 2008, the Descendants of Olivewood had gained stewardship of the cemetery, and help from the surrounding community to maintain it.
From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2023
Descendants of the ancient kings and queens of Qarth, the Purebom commanded the Civic Guard and the fleet of ornate galleys that ruled the straits between the seas.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
