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re: Do any of yall actually have possible ties to slavery?
Posted on 6/12/20 at 3:05 pm to pvilleguru
Posted on 6/12/20 at 3:05 pm to pvilleguru
quote:That's a statistical outlier set there.
Francis Gilmer Browder (born 1843, died 1926) was a Confederate soldier. He died in his cotton field when a low flying plane hit and killed him.
US Civil War Veterans killed by aeroplanes.
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Posted on 6/12/20 at 3:14 pm to floyd of pink
My grandparents came from France and didn’t arrive till the late 1870s.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 3:15 pm to floyd of pink
My great-grandfather owned a plantation after the 13th was ratified. No slavery, but I'm Cajun and Irish so there's plenty of oppression to balance my conscience anyway.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 3:20 pm to floyd of pink
Jew on one side, Acadian on the other. Ive got a nice victim resume when dealing with idiots
Posted on 6/12/20 at 3:24 pm to floyd of pink
I have a giant bell that's been passed down to me. Apparently it was used on our family farm when it was time for the "workers" to either come in for lunch or quit for the day.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 3:26 pm to floyd of pink
Both parents from Northern Norway so I doubt it
Posted on 6/12/20 at 3:27 pm to floyd of pink
I know that I have 3 different great-great-great-grand fathers who owned slaves. I also know that 1/4 of my family migrated to the US after the the war of Northern Aggression so they could not have owned slaves.
You can go to familysearch.org and do your family tree. This site is run by the Mormons and is similar to the other genealogy sites and is free. They have digitized all of the census including the slave census. On the slave census only the names of the owners are listed.
You can go to familysearch.org and do your family tree. This site is run by the Mormons and is similar to the other genealogy sites and is free. They have digitized all of the census including the slave census. On the slave census only the names of the owners are listed.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 3:28 pm to floyd of pink
Nope. My moms side is from Ohio and Iceland. Dads side is from Alabama but had to have 11 kids to tend to the land themselves.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 3:31 pm to floyd of pink
If you're 100% Italian, your family certainly has ties to slavery, just not the side you think your ancestors were on.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 4:03 pm to floyd of pink
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My family is 100% italian. We can trace our heritage back to italy/sicily with my grandparents themselves or my great grandparents actually being born there. So, no slavery possibilities in my family. Nobody in my family was in America during that shite.
Hey gumbadi - exactly the same for me.
This post was edited on 6/12/20 at 4:12 pm
Posted on 6/12/20 at 4:32 pm to floyd of pink
I’m a descendant of both slaves and slave owners, like 100% of black Americans who can trace their ancestry back to slavery.
Fun fact: Robert E Lee is my 3rd great grandfather.
Fun fact: Robert E Lee is my 3rd great grandfather.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 4:36 pm to floyd of pink
The Italians got the first slave contract from Spain for the New World.
And before that were involved in centuries of slave-taking contests with the Muslims of the med.
And before that involved in centuries of slave taking across Europe, North Africa, and in dick measuring contests with Persia.
And before that were involved in centuries of slave-taking contests with the Muslims of the med.
And before that involved in centuries of slave taking across Europe, North Africa, and in dick measuring contests with Persia.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 4:38 pm to floyd of pink
We've done family trees way back on both sides of my family. We come from dirt poor, sharecroppers most of whom never owned their own home, much less slaves.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 4:39 pm to floyd of pink
You're going to be upset to learn why the planters promoted Italian immigration into Louisiana after the Civil War....
Posted on 6/12/20 at 4:41 pm to floyd of pink
My moms half came over from Poland in the 19-teens and my dads half has been traced back to Georgia as far back as 1820. But they were literally dirt floor poor until about the 50s so I doubt we had any slave owners.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 4:43 pm to ZappBrannigan
If you are from New Orleans you probably can trace some father to somebody having a regular family and another colored family on the side....
My wife can....( have to go through a lot of twist and turns though)
Was pretty common and can find graves of the various member in the cemetery uptown...
Lots of secrets and hushed conversations....
My wife can....( have to go through a lot of twist and turns though)
Was pretty common and can find graves of the various member in the cemetery uptown...
Lots of secrets and hushed conversations....
Posted on 6/12/20 at 4:45 pm to Thecoz
I'm related to Robert E. Lee
Posted on 6/12/20 at 4:50 pm to Shooter
My wife’s great great (???) grandfather was injured putting That statue up.(lee)..it Broke free sorta and he held the rope stopping it from falling...
It torn up some stuff internally Which quickened his decline in health later in life....
It torn up some stuff internally Which quickened his decline in health later in life....
Posted on 6/12/20 at 4:50 pm to floyd of pink
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So, no slavery possibilities in my family. Nobody in my family was in America during that shite.
So what? They were here during Jim Crow. After reconstruction the South enacted laws and systems to put a boot on the necks of blacks. Blacks were denied equal education opportunities; were subjected to the mother of all voter suppression methods, etc.
All of my grandparents were born in Sicily or italy as well. They worked hard but they had more advantages than blacks and benefitted form the oppression of blacks.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 4:52 pm to floyd of pink
I have a direct ancestor, my great-great-great grandfather, who fought for the Confederacy in the 14th Alabama, Company I, Hillabee Rifles. I don't know if he was a slave owner or not, but given the region he was recruited out of - I doubt it. Still...I had a lot of family members fight in the conflict for the South. The chances of at least one of them owning slaves is fairly high.
This post was edited on 6/12/20 at 4:54 pm
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