Are you to Blame ?

[brionon]

For Slavery and Black fathers deserting their families ?
And would we Anglo-Saxons all be Good Citizens if those Normans hadn't invaded ?

[jno]

I don't know if you have any slaves yourself. But perhaps your ancestors made money out of them? And perhaps you've inherited it? And are you quite sure you're Anglo-Saxon? Had your DNA checked?

[brionon]

Yes and my Family were Farm labourers for Centuries.

[dot.hawkes]

If your roots and money come from Lancaster or Liverpool then yes you most definately profitted from the Slave triangle. in the Church Yard in lancaster there is the grave of a youngl boy, the loyal and faithful servant of a noted lancastrian family, i think the grave is from around 1820.

[Bellringer]

Normans had slaves, Anglo-Saxons had slaves, Vikings had slaves, Romans had slaves, Celts had slaves. How far back do you want to go?

[jno]

did the Normans have slaves, bellringer? I thought they went in more for serfs. The good citizen Anglo-Saxons did.

[anotheoldgit]

Africans had slaves and made a good living out of them.

[alfred lacy.]

Slavery is of common place in history and in answer to your question, Anglo-saxons are good citizens.
They were galley slaves of the Romans, were called tralls by the Vikings which means slaves. The Normans divided and took ref- the Domesday book. Slavery is for the rich, who get richer on a daily basis and in the 17 and 18 hundreds when children in London were climbing up chimneys and Washer-women were earning one penny a day for hard labour mostly living in the gutter slaves in Southern America had roofs over their heads, got three meals a day and were treated as part of the family.
Blackfathers deserting their families is as commom as whitefather deserting their families or yellowfathers deserting their families. We are and always will be slave to our background but we can't blame the world from where we come from, thats madness.

[Stu in USA]

brionon, just because you had DNA checked does not make you pure Anglo-Saxon. Do you honestly believe that there is no Roman, Viking, Norman, French etc in your past. In fact being farm labourers makes it even more likely!!!

[brionon]

Stu, I'm sorry it's so important to you. naturally I'm a Liar,because you are RIGHT.

[brionon]

Dot Hawkes , I definately did not ,in fact I DEFINITELY
deny everything and,what is more, I cannot prove it {here I use the word 'Prove' to mean 'Test'} But then neither can you ;Definitely.

[JK2]

Methinks he doth protest too much!

[brionon]

Yes ,but he Can spell.

[Stu in USA]

Shame about the grammar!!!