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- Text: ...o way back and it’s an old English family in Jamaica and I found out that they had, talking about diversity, that they had slaves through the days of slavery JUDD: Ohh they owned slaves? BUCKRIDGE: Yes, so I come from a family that owns slaves and some members are probab...
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- Text: But they would also have the slave hunter stay there too. And there’s nothing wrong with slaves eater dinner, slave hunters eating dinner and wall in between them. Because the loop hole is you swim across the river to Canada your free.
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- Text: ...hildren and didn’t start producing anybody until he was 50 which are how I get back to having my actual grandparents being slaves. Because they were pretty old when daddy was born, and he was pretty old when he started produced children of his own. So most people my age would not be able ...
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- Text: .... , a person like a Malcolm X, who takes the “X” as his last name because he has a “slave name”, you know, he has a “name of his master”, as you want to say or speak about it, and even though he was militant, even though he really reacted militantly against so many governmental ...
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- Text: ...very patient with me and it was kind of, kind of embarrassing to only know that there was these people that helped free some slaves. They really don’t tell you a lot in high school about civil rights movements and all that slavery and expeditions and all that . So, he taught me and he was...
Terrence is African American and Atheist. He discusses growing up in a neighborhood that is predominately White, Christian.
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- Text: ...me of ‘em may say that they need to be ‘paid back’ for slavery after all this time, I never can say that I’ve been a slave so I don’t know their experiences so I don’t have a shared experience with that, but I was like you, learned in school. I don’t deny it- yes, there was sl...
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- Text: ...e worked for a white lady for a while if I’m not mistaken, like cleaning her house and stuff like that. So it was not like slave labor or anything like that it was definitely like they were good friends and she just helped her out like that. One of her best friends I can remember was a wh...
