A Virginia man is suing a newspaper that reported his family’s slaveholding past — claiming he suffered “humiliation” and “emotional distress” when they implied he was racist, according to a new report.

Edward Dickinson Tayloe II is suing the C-Ville Weekly after the newspaper in March profiled his involvement in a suit to stop the removal of Confederate statues in Virginia — while recounting his family’s past as prolific slaveholders, The Daily Beast reported this month.

Tayloe is one of 13 plaintiffs trying to block the removal of Charlottesville’s embattled monument of Confederate General Robert E. Lee — the same statue that sparked the infamous Unite the Right rally in Aug. 2017 which left one woman dead.

But it was the inclusion of his family’s past that ticked-off the 76-year-old who is now suing the C-Ville newspaper, the reporter and a professor quoted in the article for a combined $1 million in damages.

In his suit, Tayloe argued the recounting of his family history — along with two quotes from a University of Virginia professor about how his family tormented black people for generations — unfairly tainted him as a racist.

“The result of the publication was to accuse Plaintiff Tayloe of race-baiting in a political and social atmosphere in Charlottesville, Virginia where, since August 12, 2017, there is virtually no worse label,” the suit reads.

The C-Ville Weekly article penned by reporter Lisa Provence, which remains online today, describes Tayloe as coming from “one of the largest slave-owning dynasties in Virginia.”

The powerful Tayloe family once owned hundreds of slaves, who worked their cotton plantations in Virginia, Alabama and the District of Columbia in the 1800s, C-Ville Weekly wrote.

The newspaper, Provence and professor Jalane Schmidt all declined to comment — but a American Civil Liberties Union lawyer representing Schmidt said the lawsuit was meant to chill her free speech.

“It is intended to send a clear message to others,” the ACLU said in a statement, “disagree or critique Plaintiff Tayloe, then you, too, will face the threat of a lawsuit.”