Do You Know Your Ancestry?

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I get reminded by like this kind of stuff where it's like Charles the last name Charles is Somewhere along the line. He was like our slave master like that's his name. I literally have my sister ancestor slave Now is that confirmed or is that an assumption? It's assumption because I mean someone along the line might have just Taken that last name. So He was feeling that pressure The name thing is crazy when you know like you so back in the day a lot of slaves in the hair there Oh, there's noSo when I think of it like my I'm the descendant of slaves so And I get reminded bylike this kind ofstuff where it's Like Charles the last names Charles

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915)^[1] was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary black elite.^[2] Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.