[EternalVigilance]

The chances that your family has not intermarried since the 1850s with others with lines back to slaveholders is almost nil.

[21twelve]

All of my grandparents came over from Norway in the late 1800’s. No slave-owners in my bloodline. Well - no American slave owners. Viking slave owners? Most definitely. Heck, my bloodline do doubt has slave blood in it. (Hey! Where do I go to pick up my reperations check!?”)

[Auntie Dem]

I know my ancestry on both sides all the way back to the 1600’s. Danes and Norwegians and not a slave owner among them. Those Mormon ancestors were pretty much isolated from slaves out in the Utah territory from 1850 until after the civil war. Perhas an isolated brother or cousin could have married a descendant of a former slave owner but my direct ancestors did not. While in Europe they were too poor to own slaves (if any existed in Europe then), they were more likely to have been slaves or indentured servants themselves.