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2. Several of ancestors owned slaves and three of them that I know of fought for the confedracy.

Sat Oct 5, 2019, 10:40 PM

Oct 2019

No need to romanticize it though....I imagine they were right @33holes, the lot of them.

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The awkward questions about slavery from tourists in US South [View all] GeoWilliam750 Oct 2019 OP

I think this from the bbc hits that point juxtaposed Oct 2019 #1