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Matt and I saw a group of slave wo clothes off to the side of the trail and Matt reacted with surprise Two of the five women were as black as I was and one was of a soft chocolate color in ter thite

I already knew the answer to his unasked question, "In the South if it was believed that a person had so ro blood in their ancestry then they were considered black no matter hohite theywith all the other slaves It would appear even that aspect of the old South has been copied over"

Thewere falling away behind us

"Because of your ancestry did you ever feel like you were entitled to some version of justice or payment to make up for as done to your ancestors ere slaves?" Matt asked softly

"Never!" I said roughly

"I make my own decisions and walk my own path I want no part of entitlement and I have no use for those who think they're owed so You need to stand on your oo feet in life and earn your oay My girls were perfect, but to these people they'd be nothing better than slaves In the old South they would have been slaves even though Lacey was as white as your sister!"

Matt squeezedin his eyes as he said, "Your girls were perfect Eli and so wasmyself to speak for a moment

"Yes she was!" I said finally

I looked around, "She was not a slave and neither a off with the disdain that I felt for everything around me that had been built upon the affliction of people, ere looked down upon as less by others

"Amen" Matt said

It was a town of mansions and the question as to the need for slavery was soon answered Nobody with a skin coloror should I say they weren't doing anything that could be called work This too must've been how the old South had functioned

It was pathetic whichever color side you picked Hoas I going to put a stop to this?

I was just one man with a small crew

Every Old Testaht of inadequacy ca anything in order to break the cycle of bondage, but rather it would be God and I was just a willing instrument to be used as part of the process