Charlottesville Newspaper Sued After Reporting on Local Family’s Ties to Slavery

ACharlottesville man is suing a local newspaper after it reported on his family’s slaveholding past. Edward Dickinson Tayloe II, a descendant of the earliest English settlers of Virginia, is also part of a lawsuit that seeks to stop the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee by the Charlottesville City Council.

Tayloe’s family history w…