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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Hoa Hao who wrote (79062)10/20/2004 12:27:49 AM
From: Neeka  Read Replies (3) of 793911
 
The fight for the abolition of slavery was certainly revolutionary and thankfully successful......at least in America.

I can't speak for other countries, although I understand those concepts haven't flourished everywhere. I just think that some men....and women..... are too wrapped up in the fruits of capitalism and/or a lack conscience to care about humanity.

I'm in the early stages of doing my genealogy, and one of the questions I want answered is why my maternal great grandmother come over to America on a leaky ship from Christchurch, Norway, alone, at the age of 16?

I wouldn't be surprised to learn it was to find a future divested of servitude to a landed family? Perhaps the Irish potato famine drove her west out of hunger? Maybe there weren't enough young men to go around, or her mother and father couldn't provide so she was forced out?

I do know that from a very young age I was told to appreciate and have pride in my ethnicity from both my Mother and Father. I wasn't taught to think my ethnicity is any more or less valuable or distinct than others.

I am interested in the characters from the past and whether they passed on traits that can be recognized in their progeny. The more I dig, the more I understand.

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