James, Henry

By the 1830s, elected officials such as James Henry Hammond could claim in the halls of Congress that American slavery retained the “advantages” of “the aristocracy of the old world,” adding that “slavery does indeed create an aristocracy — an aristocracy of talents, of virtue, of generosity and courage. In a slave country, every freeman is an aristocrat.”

For Burton, the show unearthed the secret that his great-great-grandmother on his mother’s side, Mary Sills, was actually the biological daughter of a white farmer named James Henry Dixon.

Her biological father was a man named James Henry Dixon, a white farmer who was married with several children.

James Henry, a global justice fellow at Yale University and managing director at Sag Harbor Group, an information technology consulting firm, blamed Silicon Valley Bank’s failure on decades of weakened regulations and a “tiny elite” of venture capitalists and bankers connected to top leaders of both parties.

"The U.S. life expectancy has dropped two years in a row and is now 76.4 years as of 2021, down from a peak of 78.8 years in 2019, while Canada, just next door, has an 81.75-year-old average life expectancy. We spend $12,318 per capita a year on healthcare and Canada spends $5,511–the UK has 80.8 years average life expectancy and they spend just $5,387 —we spend much more and get much less," said James Henry, an economist, attorney, and expert on international taxation.