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Plenty of people in my family emigrated to the US 1840-1890. They didn't bring any slaves over from Africa. Lots of people emigrated from Scandinavia and Germ
by peterfirefly 12y ago
Plenty of people in my family emigrated to the US 1840-1890. They didn't bring any slaves over from Africa. Lots of people emigrated from Scandinavia and Germany/German states in that period.
Don't overestimate the original sin of current white Americans.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoI'm not, it was Americans with Europeans with Africans, against the Africans, Irish and Scottish concerned. Besides, the original sin of white Americans is probably either cannibalism, or hanging Quakers. But even after slavery was agreed as wrong, the idea that the freed slaves and their descendent's were actually real people with equal political rights took a very long time to take hold, and has still only had a limited spread.