Hmmmm...I know I do as one was Governor of Barbados, but there are some in my line from Germany that came too late to the party. No slaves there. Another ancestor from Ireland (Ulster), 3Xs great grandfather, worked with the Underground Railroad.
I have definite slave owning relatives, but they were NOT ancestors. They were another branch (Southern) paralleling my line. (Northern)
Frankly, I don’t care if anyone owned slaves in my family history, what the heck does that have to do with me?
“What does it have to do with me?”
Maybe more than you think. What I am
saying is that slavery has always been
part of the human condition. However,
the reparation activists would like everyone
to believe that only white Europeans and
their American descendants engaged in slavery.
The truth is humans participated in acquiring
slaves fairly soon after they first formed tribes
and started fighting with their neighbors.
European and, later, Americans of European
descent got into the African slave trade
relatively late so the activity is well
documented. I don’t think that you and
I or anybody else owes anything to anyone
for something that societies have done for
eons.