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What did Mary Todd Lincoln's parents do for work?
Mary Todd Lincoln's father Robert Smith Todd, was a banker. Her family were slaveholders, and Mary was raised in comfort and refinement.
Did Mary Todd Lincoln have a happy childhood?
When Mary Todd Lincoln was six, her mother died in childbirth. Two years later, her father married Elizabeth Betsy Humphreys. Mary had a difficult relationship with her stepmother.

Question: What were her parents like as slaveholders?
Self-contained rewrite: What were Mary Todd Lincoln's parents like as slaveholders?