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2023-11-18 10:46:31 UTC - HELPFUL
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Most African Americans have slave owners as ancestors due to the incredibly high instances of sexual violence in the slave trade. Angela Davis is a scholar and a light skinned Black woman, she was aware this would be the likely outcome of looking at her ancestory. https://psmag.com/news/how-slavery-changed-the-dna-of-african-americans https://www.thenation.com/article/society/angela-davis-pbs-genealogy/tnamp/
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