You’re just wrong. Most people in this country have some lines that come from slave holders.
Some do, but "most" don't !
Just as the "new" immigrants stuck to the same neighborhoods, until they managed to not only assimilate,but climb the class ladder, many still had enclaves, as they rose, in better sections of the city/state, even other states! They also didn't marry outside of their "group" or religions until fairly recently. Add to that, though there were slave holders in the North East, at one time, there weren't all THAT many of them!
There isn't a single person in my family, on all sides, who has an ancestor who was a slave holder and I can saw the same for most, I have ever known.
You are the one who is wrong and very much so!
Maybe if you’re counting all the way back to the Roman Empire...
If you go back far enough, most people also have lines that came from slaves.
This is why studying (and understanding) history is so important. Slavery, was universal and unremarkable through all of human history and in every culture before the Enlightenment.
That revolution in human thought in Europe through the 17th and 18th centuries lead directly to the American Revolution where the ideas of the Enlightenment were first brought in to practice and where the first organized opposition to slavery on moral, intellectual and even religious grounds first appeared.
But don't expect a pampered over paid tinsel covered idiot like Ben Aflac to comprehend that.
Look, nopardons wants to feel ‘special’ and we should let him. Unlike those of us whose families once owned slaves nopardons’ forebears had nothing to do with creating this country. They just bought a boat ticket at some point. We should applaud that with the same enthusiasm we show for someone who buys a plane ticket today and announces that he’s special because he has no connection to America’s history.
Americans who can trace their family trees back to the colonial era are pretty much guaranteed to be cousins. There were only two million people total in British North America at the time of the Revolution and those families had been intermarrying for generations. And like every single Presidential family up to the time of Lincoln, excluding the Adams, many of them owned slaves.