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re: Do any of yall actually have possible ties to slavery?
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:32 pm to floyd of pink
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:32 pm to floyd of pink
90% of my family came over between the civil war and WW1 (mostly Russians, Germans, and Italians). I did have a great great great great great grandfather from France who had a few slaves at his farm in St. Martinville. There's a few black families in the New Iberia and Lafayette area that have that last name.
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Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:34 pm to floyd of pink
My family owned the Destrehan Plantation in Nola during the sugar plantation slave revolt. Great great great grandfather and his father in law were head of the Tribunal council and had 11 slaves heads cut off and put on a pike along the river as an example to others
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:34 pm to TDsngumbo
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Slavery was around long before the mid 1800's so we ALL have ties to slavery.
Yep, every one of us is descended from slaves and from slavers. That is true also of everyone who marched in a BLM protest this year.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:35 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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For a significant amount of people, thats precisely what it's about.
Lots of very stupid, ignorant people in the world.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:38 pm to floyd of pink
Yes. My great-great grandfather owned a plantation in south Alabama and owned several slaves and for long after the ratification of the thirteenth amendment.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:38 pm to floyd of pink
quote:being considered white, you and your family still benefited from slavery, so you should prostrate yourself to the alter of white guilt.
My family is 100% italian.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:41 pm to floyd of pink
My ancestors didn’t speak English and were poor sharecroppers in St. Landry Parish. Feel pretty safe giving a hard no as an answer.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:44 pm to floyd of pink
My father's side of the family came over in the 1670's. That guy must have made some good money as he left a lot a land to some county in Delaware to be used as a cemetery.
The family eventually transitioned down to Mississippi. My great grandfather on my mother's side fought with the confederacy but they were very poor and didn't own slaves. I think he joined up because he lived not far from Corinth, MS and that is where there was some serious fighting.
The family eventually transitioned down to Mississippi. My great grandfather on my mother's side fought with the confederacy but they were very poor and didn't own slaves. I think he joined up because he lived not far from Corinth, MS and that is where there was some serious fighting.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:44 pm to Philzilla2k
3/4th of my family was cast out of Nova Scotia by the English and settled in Acadiana. The other 1/4 came from Naples through Ellis Island. One side did acquire land along the river from Zachary Taylor's son, just after the Civil War though so probably no slaves.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:45 pm to floyd of pink
My ancestors arrived in the Boston area around 1640. He owned a slave. Set her free and her 2 kids were always free. They chose to remain employed by the Sons and Daughter of my many times great grandfather. The black families traveled with my ancestors families as free people to the Illinois/Indiana area prior to the Revolutionary War.
It was around 1840 that my paternal family ancestors then moved to Louisiana.
Since 1693 there is no record of any slaves owned by my family. She was given a house and land upon my ancestor's death by his own handwritten Will. Since this was all pre USA it could be said they not even African Americans, they were subjects of the British Crown.
It was around 1840 that my paternal family ancestors then moved to Louisiana.
Since 1693 there is no record of any slaves owned by my family. She was given a house and land upon my ancestor's death by his own handwritten Will. Since this was all pre USA it could be said they not even African Americans, they were subjects of the British Crown.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:49 pm to floyd of pink
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Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:49 pm to floyd of pink
Cotton pickers in Gilbert
Boat Builders in Morgan City
Always poor, hard working simple folk as far as I can go back
Boat Builders in Morgan City
Always poor, hard working simple folk as far as I can go back
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:49 pm to floyd of pink
Came from France via Saint-Domingue (Haiti). Got some pretty ugly family history.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:49 pm to lake chuck fan
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It doesn't matter if my great, great, grandfather owned slaves.
I have never owned any. These fricking people need to let go of the past. Black people didn't get fricked over as much as the indians.
I'm not accusing, but rather asking a real question. Are you one of those who love to fly the Confederate flag still?
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:55 pm to floyd of pink
Mine was into child brides. No slavery as far as I know. Only so much time in a day, I guess.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:56 pm to floyd of pink
I know of at least three of my great-great-great grandfathers owned slaves.
Pay reparations? Kiss my arse.
Pay reparations? Kiss my arse.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:56 pm to floyd of pink
None that I’ve been able to locate, and Ive checked. Family has been in Louisiana since before New Orleans was incorporated. The other side landed in Connecticut late 1600’s and made their way south and west over time. Both sides did fight for the Confederacy, and I have a significant amount of documentation from that period, especially war letters and the like as well as POW exchange documentation, and burial info on my GGG Grandfather who died fighting the blue bellies. 
Posted on 6/12/20 at 2:00 pm to Pintail
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My family is 100% italian.
Says every “Italian” ever
I have a friend who is “Italian” and I told him once just because he is catholic and his last name ends in a vowel don’t make him full Italian. He got upset
Posted on 6/12/20 at 2:01 pm to floyd of pink
I can trace my ancestors back to when they came from France. I know one for certain that had a plantation and owned slaves.
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