I don't want to be like the typical fake white liberal apologist, but I did some digging in my family tree and unfortunately it appears my great great great great grand father through my maternal line had enslaved about 10 people.
Bums me out and makes feel sick to my stomach.
Maybe ask yourself why having a distant ancestor who owned slaves has an effect on your identity. Are there some attributes of yourself that you associate with your family’s genetics? Do you feel expected to have a sense of loyalty to this person? Do you feel like this casts the actions or material position of your family in a different light? Would you feel better if you’d traced down every single ancestor and they’d all descended from European immigrants within the past 100 years? If so, why?