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Walleye

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1. My family brought enslaved Africans to the Eastern shore Virginia in colonial times

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Thu Nov 3, 2022, 12:32 PM

Nov 2022

I’m certainly not proud of it and not particularly ashamed of it I would hate to think they wouldn’t be teaching about it in school, though. I just use it as incentive to be a better person than my ancestors were

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Governor Kemp's Family Brought Slavery to Georgia [View all] douglas9 Nov 2022 OP

My family brought enslaved Africans to the Eastern shore Virginia in colonial times Walleye Nov 2022 #1

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THIS is major appalachiablue Nov 2022 #3