Roundtable: Amid Tributes to Queen Elizabeth, Deadly Legacy of British Colonialism Cannot Be Ignored

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6. Consider if your grandparents owned slaves, what do

you owe this generation? How much of your wealth and privilege are you willing to share?

Someone may not be directly responsible to benefit from imperialism, etc.

Recommended:

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Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball

This book is written by a descendant of a South Carolina slave holding family who used his family's records to search for and find many of the living descendants of the slaves who had been owned by his ancestors. The narrative tells the stories of his search and his many interviews, and along the way he also tells the history of slavery in America.

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He takes the unusual step of traveling to Africa to ask the hard questions of Africans selling neighbors.