Are you from the South? If so you should be aware of the rich and gracious culture of our region. Slavery was a national disgrace not a Southern disgrace. Many, many people in the North owned slaves until after the War between the states ended. I am very proud to be a Southern woman and would never want to live anywhere else and I’m going to be very vocal about attempts to destroy Southern heritage. It is what it is.
Yes, I am from the South. My people have been here since 1725, starting in North Carolina, then after the War for Independence, they came through the Cumberland Gap to receive Tennessee land grants awarded to soldiers.
Forebearers on my mother’s side fought at Little Round Top and previous to that were some of the first settlers in Tuscaloosa, traveling in a wagon train of like minded Believers down the Federal Highway from SC.
Back to my dad’s side:
After the Civil War, and after the land played out, they came to work in the mills in Huntsville, AL.
I love my heritage but there wasn’t any slave owning I could find in my genealogy research except for two people that I found who had one slave listed.
So I guess I don’t really feel an attachment to the slave owner/plantation situation because it wasn’t a part of who I came from.
I am distantly related to John Chisum and if memory serves he owned slaves but I think he also had black out of wedlock children.
Are you proud to be an American? I am.