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FlaGranny

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Sun May-25-08 01:10 PM
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35. You cannot imagine my shock

in doing geneaology research when I found out at least one of my ancestors owned slaves - in New Jersey in the 1700s!! I didn't even know that people had slaves in NJ. It certainly wasn't in my school history books. Southerners are always blamed for slavery, but I'll bet many northerners would be shocked at having ancestors who held slaves. It somehow makes me feel ashamed 250 years later.

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