BlindBoo
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Pretty damn sure my ancestors were slaves as well. Serfs, for some uppity up in England after it took over Ireland and kicked everyone to the curb...kinda like they did in Africa. That's one side. The other side (paternal)...not too sure about. But blacks don't have the claim of being enslaved only. People of all races were. I don't see them crying about it and blaming "whitey".
Indentured servants were treated much differently than slaves. The slave's children were brought into this world as property and sold as property. Their entire race had to be publicly demonized to justify the treatment. And they were demonize in both the North and the South as an inferior race. Even Abe Lincoln was a known racist.
But then again I didn't do it to them, and I expect to be judged by my deeds and not the deeds of my ancestors.