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"I simply mean that not all slaves were so abused as portrayed by modern movies and the NSM. Many older movies show a bonding between some owners and slaves, and that generation had grandfathers who were slave owners. They would know."

I am one who knows from my ancestors. My great grandmother's family 'owned' a slave, who after the war lived in the house with the family as a beloved friend. I grew up on stories about Rosa, from my grandmother.

There were some terrible slave owners; and there were those like Jefferson, who tried to deal responsibly with the exigencies of his time.

I don't believe for a moment that he fathered any slave's child; though there were some in his family and genetic line who might have done.

-JT