I don’t have nothing to do with what my grandfather or great-grandfather did!
Most privateers and pyrates got hung, died from gunshot, or a bad liquor.
They all had short lives and not many off spring “of which to speak”.
Grandfather? Great-grandfather?
My grandpa was born in 1920, and his father was born around 1890.
HIS father would have been about 1 when the Civil War started, so it would be my great-great-great grandfather who would have been around before the war.
That is, if any of my ancestors had been in the US before the war, which they weren’t.
Neither do I! My ancestors owned plantations, one of which was what is now the Garden District of New Orleans. SOME of their descendants did-and do-benefit from inherited wealth, but not my side. The ELDEST son got the inheritance in those days, and passed it on the same way to their eldest. In a family of 12, the younger siblings(my great grandfather/mother) got NOTHING. So I have ‘cousins’ in the society pages who wouldn’t know or acknowledge me-much less share any of great-great-granddaddies slave profits. I would be amused to see thug-types like this Azalea person decide to ‘get theirs’. The truth is- as terrible as slavery was- being black in America is better than being black in Africa. It must be. I’ve never seen a mass exodus back to the motherland. And once these ‘rappers’ make a fortune with their obscene ‘music’ they could take that money back to their tribal homeland and make it a paradise. Why don’t they? So- yeah- let’em come on-let’em drive their Escalades and call each other on their Iphone 6’s to meet at my tiny apartment to get ‘reparations’ owed by my slave owning ancestors!! How about what they owe working taxpayers for generations of welfare?
Women didn’t even get to vote until 1920 so we’re off the hook, LOL.