[mstar]

Uh, because you said they were planter class and were hard-working. Planter class by definition means slaveowner.

uh it doesn't and so what

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

You might want to research that. "planter class" a well-known term in historiography and it has a meaning. If your ancestors were engaged in agriculture and weren't using slaves, they were farmers, not planters.

I've said on these threads before that slaveowners must have been the least fertile people on earth. No one seems to be descended from one.