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To: Jamestown1630

I know you’re right. The tragedy and crime of slavery made black people the only ones who didn’t come willingly to look for a new and better life. No slave traders wanted individuality for the victims by matching names and genealogies.

I don’t remember the movie name (I saw the preview in a theater in probably 1971 or 1972) but it had a black man confidently saying in NYC “Every black person I see go past me I can match their facial looks to their tribe back in Africa.”


34 posted on 02/17/2026 4:54:44 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: frank ballenger

There were White indentured servants whose descendants probably can’t find records, either.


41 posted on 02/17/2026 6:19:26 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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