Benjamin Rush's Memoirs of a Native African

Benjamin Rush bought an enslaved black man named William Gruber and held him in bondage as his cook for more than a decade. Here's where it stops being cool, because he was publicly an anti-racist, but privately he owned the man. "This is a fucking insane version of capitalistic hypocrisy," says historian Julian Zelizer. 'I think it is very hard to like no matter'