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What to do when your family history includes both oppression and complicity

My ancestry includes enslaved people and enslavers and I do not know how to hold both truths about my bloodline without falling apart.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Discovering ancestral connections to historical trauma from multiple perspectives creates complex moral and emotional burdens around heritage.

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“Where Are You with Ethnic identity and heritage?”

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