I do!
That did not, however, make it a good idea!
And, it is a totally different issue apart from
that of slavery.
To which I would like to add:
If any of many ancestors owned slaves, I don't
know about it; and, if they did,
that is them.
Throughout my life, I have come closer to being a
slave than owning one; and, I think that instead of worrying
about things that are in the past , and which we cannot do
anything about, it is better to consider the places on this earth
today where slavery still exists in one form or another.
There is were our concern should be!
This does not mean that we should not study the
past; but, to learn from it, not to condemn it, or praise it, or
defend it; for the past simply is, there is nothing we can do
about it other than try to learn from it. Our concern must be of
today and what we can do today to make tomorrow a better
place.
On this links page, I have tried to represent a
range of Southern sites which represent the diversity of the
South and its people; but, they are in no particular order. It
takes enough time to find these links, much less organize
them.
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