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My grandfather was born in 1920. His grandfather was born in 1860, at the beginning of the Civil War, into an America where slavery had yet to be abolished. And so, as I have sometimes thought about it, I dodged slavery by just five generations.

Benjamin Watson

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Mein Großvater wurde 1920 geboren. Sein Großvater wurde 1860 zu Beginn des Bürgerkriegs in ein Amerika geboren, in dem die Sklaverei noch nicht abgeschafft werden musste. Und da ich manchmal darüber nachgedacht habe, bin ich der Sklaverei um nur fünf Generationen gefolgt.

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