AFAIK, my forefathers arrived here shortly before or after slavery came to an end and to my knowledge never owned any slaves. So no “sorry” from me!
My ancestors helped to free he slaves, by not only marching to the south and fighting for their freedom, but bringing an ex slave and his wife home with him and finding a house and job for him, and in searching the census for 1880 I saw that the ex slave and his family lived right across the street from my ancestors
None of my kin owned slaves. But not long after the Civil War my paternal gramma, as a child was “hired out” to a farm near Cambridge, MD which had former slaves working there. She lived in their quarters and learned to cook and bake from those ladies, who being illiterate had all the recipes and cooking/baking knowledge in their heads. In my day she was known in our area a prime cook and baker. It was a wonderful treat to visit Gramma Ida. She ALWAYS ad a cake, a pie or both in her old punched tin pie safe in the basement.