Posted on 01/05/2017 8:55:38 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
I'm shark bait white, in 1960s Beach Boys Southern California, I could only burn red. My 17th century Irish ancestors, were told by foreign landlords, 'Just take your brats and GET', out on the road, to starve; we went to the wrong Church. My Grandmother's restaurant in 1920s Gulf Shores Alabama was boycotted by the Klan for feeding and paying Blacks the same as Whites.
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That must have been a long time ago. I have four questions about that...
The 1860 census found only 8% of American families owning slaves. In only five states did more than a third of families own slaves. That counts whole slaveholding families, so individuals owning slaves would be even more rare.
BTW: A huge majority of slaveholders had less than 10 slaves.
Yet here I sit, accused of being a slave owner and being the cause for all misery a generic black population suffers from, only because my skin is "white".
No sense at all...
George Washington was a wealthy man. But if you read his journals, the cost of owning slaves was breaking him.
http://www.theroot.com/articles/history/2013/03/black_slave_owners_did_they_exist/
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And for a time, free black people could even “own” the services of white indentured servants in Virginia as well. Free blacks owned slaves in Boston by 1724 and in Connecticut by 1783; by 1790, 48 black people in Maryland owned 143 slaves. One particularly notorious black Maryland farmer named Nat Butler “regularly purchased and sold Negroes for the Southern trade,” Halliburton wrote.
All my ancestors weren’t even in the US until after 1900.
I believe many free Negros in Louisiana owned slaves, as did American Indians, who had held slaves regardless of race for many generations.
When Morsi was in power and his radicalized imams proposed doing away with The Pyramids as being heathen, un-Islamic & idolatrous monuments, the running joke was, "News flash: Netanyahu to Egypt: If you destroy the pyramids, we will NOT rebuild."
My grandma grew up picking cotton in Oklahoma.
My family was not enslaved, nor slavers.
That makes us normal.
I picked cotton until I was eighteen and could join the Navy!
I planted and raised it on my father’s farm and walked behind a plow from the time I was ten years old. Who do I go to for my “reparations”? By the way, I am as white as one can be without being an actual albino. I am in an area with a high black population but have never met a black person who shares my surname, even though I grew up in a county with the highest number of people who share that name of any county in the entire USA. That can mean only one thing, my ancestors NEVER owned slaves.
My family on both sides were property owners and traders in the south since about 1660. The only slaves they ever owned were transferred to George Washington when he married widow Martha Parkes, who inherited them and a large tract of land from her deceased husband, a family patriarch on my mother’s side. This made GW the largest landholder in the colonies. The slaves were subsequently freed.
My Georgia family picked cotton right next to slaves. They were as pissed that slaves were used as we are today that illegal aliens take jobs.
About an 85 IQ, the average for those that tortured this man. Think about that.
Well, in the spirit of honesty, my paternal grandmother’s family owned slaves. My grandmother passed at 104 years of age, while going through her stuff, there was an obituary of a black woman. It turned out that she was a freed slave who basically was a nanny to my grandmother. I was about 40 years old, and this was the first time I’d heard her name, but naturally she was gone long before my time.
Apparently she was taken care of by the family in her old age, and my dad said that my grandmother always loved her!
History is often closer than you think.
only 4% of Confederates owned slaves. It was a very tiny but rich and powerful minority
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Sheriff Clark seems to be doing OK.
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