Linda, This is the best darn comment that I have seen on this subject.  Lets
keep the politics out of genealogy.
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Subject: slavery/treason debate


 Gees,
> I hesitate to enters this tiresome and eventually boring subject, but
after
> looking as all the, shall we say, comments and wonder what side I should
take.
>
> Why? My 5th G GF was a slave. My 4th G GF was a "free Negro". My 4th G
GF's
> mulatto son claimed to be white on the 1830 census. My GG GF fought for
the
> Union. My GG GF fought for the Confederacy. My GG GM lost 3 Confederate
> soldier brothers to the Union Army.
>
> As you can see there are a million angles to this discussion, none are
> winners. How about it if we just give it up and move all.
>
> Linda
>
>
> >
> 
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