Alamance Commissioner Refers To Slaves As Workers | News & Observer

Alamance commissioner Tim Sutton referred to slaves as workers during a meeting of the commission. Sutton was referring to his great-grandfather’s service in the Confederate army during the Civil War and said “It is my understanding that when he died … that some guys on the farm, you can call them slaves if you want to, but I would just call them workers, that they raised a good bit of my family. When the time came, my great-grandmother gave them land.’

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