" most people didn't have slave owning ancestors "......there's a understatement. In fact its exceedingly rare to find someone with a single slave owning ancestor ( well ignoring our current VP ). Less than one in twenty Americans living today have any ancestors that owned slaves. Of course this makes sense when we consider how small the country was at the time before the great migration from Europe ( I believe the population was under 35 million, and of that very few owned slaves ). So yes, only 5% of the population living in the US today has a single relative that owned a slave. People watch too much tv, they assume whites were all wealthy plantation owners sipping sweet tea on the porch while slaves worked the fields. No , believe it or not , we weren't all raised on Tara with Scarlett O'Hara. More like Little House on the Prairie if you were lucky, and in the case of my ancestors more like The Grapes of Wrath. Yes shocking, I know.

" most people didn't have slave owning ancestors "......there's a understatement.

In fact its exceedingly rare to find someone with a single slave owning ancestors ( well ignoring our current VP ).

Less than one in twenty Americans living today have any ancestors that owned slaves. Of course this makes sense when we consider how small the country was at the time before the great migration from Europe ( I believe the population was under 35 million, and of that very few owned slaves ). So yes, only 5% of the population living in the US today has a single relative that owned a slave. People watch too much tv, they assume whites were all wealthy plantation owners sipping sweet tea on the porch while slaves worked the fields. No , believe it or not , we weren't all raised on Tara with Scarlett O'Hara. More like Little House on the Prairie if you were lucky, and in the case of my ancestors more like The Grapes of Wrath. Yes shocking, I know.