re: What's the closest you or a family member has been to a part of history?

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I’m related to some, but they’re out of Kansas, not the group from Mississippi. But supposedly, per that article all are descended from one guy Abraham who came over to America in the early 1600s.

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Yeah, I’m the Mississippi branch. I believe that branch started in the late 1700s or early 1800s. Regardless they had a massive, massive estate in central Mississippi (of which my pledge brother is also descended from).

When the war ended, well they claim they were kind slave owners, but they gave them the chance to leave, or to stay where they would have a free place to live and they’d also open a store for them where they could buy things with their credits and be happy on the farm, but that they were free to leave at any time. Most of them took them up on their offer.

Well in the late 1890s one of their “workers” found out that one of the other “workers” raped his wife, and he fricking murdered him. I think my grandmother’s great grandfather was running the plantation at the time, and well he agreed with the murderer that the other man deserved to die. So he gave him a Benjamin (at least so the family legend goes), told him and his wife to get up to Chicago, and wished them the best of luck because obviously the cops would get involved in that.

I think that in like the 1910s the government told them to cut the shite and can’t legally do that anymore.