If you heard about Bill O'Reilly "fact checking" Michelle Obama's speech by saying that the slaves who built the White House were well fed (as if that in any way undermines the point of her speech or justifies using slaves to build the place), read Abigail Adams' (wife of President John Adams) own words of her experience in the newly opened White House:
http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-03-02-0799
"...it is true Republicanism that drive the Slaves half fed, and destitute of cloathing, or fit for Mayfaire, to labour, whilst the owner waches about Idle..."
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