Did members of your family "own" slaves?

Did members of your family "own" slaves?
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I know that neither the branch of my family that’s been here since the 1600s nor the branch of my family that came over in the early 1800s owned slaves on this continent. I don’t think they owned slaves before that, as they lived in countries where slavery was illegal, but I couldn’t say for certain.
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