Oh I get it. My ancestors in Roanoke, who owned no slaves, just layed around and drank mint julips not "producing wealth".
Them whitey's don't work do's they...
He has no idea about life, or the working system, of the time.
It seems as if it is all about the bad people taking advantage of the good people to him.
Can you imagine the limits of knowledge of the person. Like has been said, some do not know what they do not know.
And this guy hasn't a clue.
If they worked no harder than you do in learning history then they were bums.
Since the Ruling Class of the South viewed work as something to avoid at all cost, I can only conclude your ancestors were among those led down the primrose path by the Slaver aristocracy to their own destruction. Don’t feel bad though those fools destroyed the whole South.