Who is qualified to be self-righteous about liberty in other countries?

In 1845, a Virginia man gave his daughter Jane Cox a 15-year old slave named Susan White as a wedding present. Susan White had a daughter named Susan Brown in 1856, who also became a slave for the Cox family.

After Emancipation, Susan White and her daughter Susan Brown left the Cox family to seek free employment. They could not find any, so they came back to the Coxes to work as domestic servants.

This picture from 1903 shows Susan White and Susan Brown with Cox family members. The baby that Susan Brown is holding is  Elizabeth Jane Cox, her middle name in honor of her great-grandmother Jane Cox, and the woman on the far left is her mother Hannah Cox. Elizabeth Jane Cox was my grandmother.