re: Larry David discovers he had slave owning and Confederate ancestors

His ancestors were a buncha late bloomers. Pffft.

My 1st ancestor in the America's back in the mid-late 1600's had a slave. In his will he set her and her kids up with a house, a stream of income, and sets of papers declaring their freedom.

If I remember correctly, he died in 1692, thus making his slaves' and their descendants free citizens of the Crown almost 100 years before there even was a United States of America.