My ancestors came later, but pre-civil war. Two penniless kids, a brother and sister, walked from Kidwelly, Wales to an English port and boarded a ship that took them to Nevis, a Caribbean island where he cut down trees before the slaves arrived to plant sugar. She was a Spinner.
They got paid nothing, but at the end of a few years, they were dropped off on a beach in North Carolina.. NC was on the southern side in the Civil War
IFriends agree that our family should be paid reparations for slavery.
My husband’s ancestor was one of the Scot’s prisoners of war who came to New England as slaves after the Battle of Dunbar.