[Blennos]

At least, two of my ancestors were captured and sent to America as slaves. Their descendants were shown as Free Blacks in later censuses.

All of my ancestors were slaves in Egypt.

[Verginius Rufus]

The professor has evidently never heard of Moses and the enslavement of the Israelites by the pharaoh. Before emancipation, American slaves were well aware of that story, which they could relate to in terms of their own wish for freedom. Of course Afro-centrists today claim that the Egyptians were black Africans.

The village where my ancestors lived was raided more than once by Turkish pirates who enslaved as many people as they managed to capture--possibly some were my ancestors (if they had children who didn't get captured), and probably all of them were some sort of relatives.