Well, that’s embarrassing.
The family that owns the paper of record, so to speak, which also published the factually incorrect but nevertheless Pulitzer Prize-winning “1619 Project,” not only has links to the Confederacy, but it appears as though they were slave owners as well.
Writing at the New York Post, columnist Michael Goodwin notes:
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 Bertha’s family fought for secession.
He added that last week, he was “aware of no evidence or claims that any members of Bertha’s family owned slaves or participated in the slave trade.”
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But he can’t say that anymore.
“I have found compelling evidence that the uncle Bertha Levy Ochs lived with for several years in Natchez, Miss., before the Civil War owned at least five slaves,” Goodwin wrote.
“Separately, there is also compelling evidence that the brother of a Revolutionary War-era ancestor of the Sulzberger branch of the family was involved in the slave trade,” Goodwin added. “His name was Abraham Mendes Seixas, and he was born in New York City in 1750. He was an officer in the Continental Army during the war, then stayed in South Carolina, where accounts describe him as a slave merchant and/or auctioneer.”
Goodwin goes on to note that Adolph Ochs’ “Southern sympathies” were noted in the first newspaper he owned, the Chattanooga Times, and then in The New York Times, the latter of which published an op-ed in 1900 noting that the Democratic Party, which Ochs backed, “may justly insist that the evils of negro suffrage were wantonly inflicted on them.”
Wow. In other words, the op-ed says that Democrats were right to say that black slaves got what they deserved.
A half-dozen years later, the Times then published a complimentary profile of the Confederacy’s lone president, Jefferson Davis, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, in which he was described as “the great Southern leader.”
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Ochs also reported contributed to Confederate memorials, including $1,000 to the massive Stone Mountain Memorial in Georgia that celebrates and honors Davis, Robert E. Lee, and General ‘Stonewall’ Jackson. When he made the donation in 1924 so his mom, who had passed away 16 years earlier, could be listed on the founders’ roll because “Robert E. Lee was her idol.
Ochs’ brother, George, simultaneously served as an officer of The New York Times Company and as a leader of the New York Chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (didn’t know the Empire State had a ‘Sons’ chapter, did you?).
If you get the feeling that the Times owners have a lot to answer for as they cheer on the destruction of Confederate monuments and the erasure of Confederate history, you’re not alone.
