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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: i-node who wrote (204312)7/6/2021 9:19:56 AM
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But if you randomly pick 100 black individuals and ask them what slaves, from where, they descended, they cannot answer.

You might be surprised about that. It's a mistake to think that black people are stupider than you. I know of some black people who came to IL after they were freed in VA. They gave their children's names inherited from whites in their own family tree. (Turner Brown, for example. The Turner name preserved a family connection to the Turner family.)

If you ask me who my grandparents are I wouldn’t know (I could find their names somewhere). These connections just don’t drag out for long periods.

I know who my grand and great grandparents were and many lines farther back. I know many of them back to their coming to America. There were farmers and black smiths and store keepers and wheat threshers and soldiers. Thank you, Internet.

I know one of my ancestors who came to America as a mercenery soldier for the British, used land grants to compile an estate for his children, donated land to found a church and cemetery. This was all in the 1700's



One of my ggrandfathers donated the land for a country school - the building is still standing and has been converted into a home. The school closed in the '50's.

It is really had for most people to show that they have any substantial connection to four or five generations back,.
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