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White
Slaves and Indians in the Family is the story of my
journey to uncover the roots of my African American family
tree.
Much to my
surprise, as I started shaking the branches of this family
tree, lo and behold, all sorts of different people started
falling out, some with racially ambiguous bloodlines and
obscure origins. The enslaved African Americans were there,
indeed, in great numbers, but they were not alone for a
number of free families of color accompanied them, families
who never knew slavery and whose family members fought
in the Revolutionary War. There were also people referred to
by historians as White slaves, and somewhere along the line, Native Americans and Europeans entered into the
picture.
Please
come with me on a journey to uncover the roots of my African
American family tree ...
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