Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 September 2022
Despite my “foreign” last name, I am an eighth-generation American dating from 1701 when my great5-grandfather Lewis Latané, at 14 a refugee from Louis XIV’s genocide of French Protestants, at 29 arrived in Tappahannock, VA, newly ordained by the Bishop of London after earning a degree from Oxford, with an annual salary of two hogsheads of tobacco. He promptly used it, no doubt with the full approval of the Church of England, to buy slaves.
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