White but never owned a slave
Crystal, Fredericksburg, VA Honestly I am getting sick and tired of being told I need to apologize for slavery. I have NEVER owned a slave...
My father endearingly calls us “Cottonpicker.”
Thais TX My father, age 83, born in a small town in northern Louisiana, has always called my siblings, cousins, and I “Cottonpicker.” My father...
My Ancestors NEVER owned any slaves.
Anthony Turoczy, Manassas, VA. My Great-grandparents came to America in 1904 from Hungary. They worked in the mines during the day and went...
This sideboard was built by slaves
Peter Seay, St. Louis, MO. After my grandparents past away, we inherited a sideboard which promptly found its home in our dining room. As it...
I unpack my white privilege daily.
Sarah Walton Nashville, TN I descend directly from southern slave-owners and, more recently, racists. My family’s wealth is built on the backs of over a...
Slave owning ancestors mortgaged my future.
Buford Woolley, Pittsburgh, PA. My mostly white family tree flows through S Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and lastly California where...
I didn’t own any slaves.
David Murray Springfield, IL Racism is real – all around. Frankly, I am tired of being considered a racist just because I am a white...
YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN MY SLAVE!!!
Gene Michael Lipan, TX Tired of being made to feel like I am supposed to be guilty of something. No black alive in America has...
Why me, I’m not a slave owner??
Jo Pembroke, NC Why call me racist because im white and believe in traditional values… i feel its not fair I can help what people...
Racism takes many forms and colors.
Catherine Marenghi Marblehead, MA My family is white, and I was pleased to find no slave owners in my past — but I found a...
African Americans were slave owners too.
Leonard Henry Atlanta, GA Check out this scholarly book, Black Slaveowners: Free black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860, by Larry Koger ISBN 0-89950-160-5. Also...
My ancestors were Appalachian slave owners.
Cindy Hutchison Russell Guadalajara, Mexico Took a graduate course in circum Atlantic slavery – did my own family research – discovered that my direct ancestors...
Ambivalent, because my family owned slaves.
Charles H. Sides Westminister, MA I always felt superior because my great-great grandfather Sides was conscripted against his will or support into the Confederate Army,...
My family never owned any slaves.
Jim Canton, OH Just because I’m white doesn’t imply my ancestors were slave owners. If I don’t like you it’s not due to race.
White girl. Black school. Called “slave owner.”
Erin Murphy Barling, AK I grew up in a mostly African American neighborhood outside Miami, Florida. My friends never made me feel out of place...
White doesn’t equal slave owner past
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Crossing the Racial Divide, Marietta, GA
REPOST: Story by Patricia Templeton One Church was founded by slave owners, the other by former slaves. On a recent cold, wet winter night their spiritual...
