- [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The National Audubon Society, dedicated to the conservation of birds, is named in honor of Franco-American ornithologist John James Audubon
- Audubon is most famous for publishing his book Birds of America as a series in sections between 1827 and 1838
- In a magazine piece, the Society said it was speaking out against its namesake and condemning his slave-owning and white supremacist past
- Audubon, who was born on a sugar plantation in present-day Haiti, may have some African roots, but claimed his mother was murdered by a black rebel
- When he moved to the US, his family owned and sold several slaves and spoke out against abolition
- He never acknowledged black or indigenous people who helped him write his book and referred to black enslaved men as 'hands'