In the first place, I don’t feel guilty for slavery, since two of my great grandfathers fought for the north to free the slaves. Another thing I learned recently, a lot of the Africans came over here as indentured servants, working for their benefactors for a period of 7 years, and then freed. There are a lot of their descendants in the Carolinas even today. Another thing, I call them Africans because we don’t know which African country they came from.
Well, when you consider that around 300,000 were transported to the U.S. and a whole bunch more went to south america, it kinda dulls the whining we here. I’m thinkin’ repayment for transportation costs. My ancestors also fought on the yankee side out of upstate NY. Also during the revolution as well. And 1812 and.........