The perpetually outraged ignore the message of love in the ad, something they rejected long ago...
So tired of people looking for reasons to be offended. Terrible things happened in every time frame in history of mankind. Yet there were also love stories.
Of course not every story of relationships during the time of slavery in this country was romantic but there must have been some.
Denying any good in the past, along with emphasizing the bad is why so many hate this country. To those people I say move on, get a life. Or just move.
I was taught the good and bad of history, taught to value and celebrate the good; learn from the bad in the past so those things would not be repeated. I was taught by my parents that if you get knocked down by life you get up and put one foot in front of the other and move forward.
Too many people now are stuck in a rut, and the truly sad thing is they are stuck in a rut over things that happened to their ancestors!! That is sheer insanity.
Did it have them singing “De’ Camptown Races”?
Wonder if these idiots care that my forebears likely were slaves under the Romans...is that far enough back for them?
Some people on social media complained, oh no!
Looong time ago: “Go West, young man..!”
Not so long ago: “Get rich, bro..!”
NOW: “HOW can I be offended..?”
And TODAY..?
Yeah, when black chicks envision RAPE, they think of a WHITE guy, right...?
Eh....NO.
I think there was one recent year in the USA during which there was --count 'em!-- ONE SINGLE rape of a black female by a white dude.
In the whole USA:
ONE.
“The ad appeared to show a white man trying to convince a black woman in what appears to be in the antebellum South to head North with him to get married.”
Oh the horror!
Yeah,showing empathy makes you a dick.
As if there weren’t any people who lived outside of that system???
I am on a fb group for research of my families ancestors. There are four books from the past researched by various relatives since the 1950’s which are all out of print. The host has archived photostats when permission was given and will look up individuals in books where the permission in not given to keep copies in the archive. Since our namesake came from the north of England and landed in Virginia we have many Black family members in the group.
Ancestry.com should have promoted slavery instead.
You know..... FULL Employment!
>>The ad appeared to show a white man trying to convince a black woman in what appears to be in the antebellum South to head North with him to get married.
Apparently some descendants are angry that great great grandmama married a white dude and their bloodline purity is tainted?
Good grief
Oh, for heaven’s sake. Those ads don’t glorify slavery. They acknowledge that those who came before us had lives worth remembering.
Never quite understood the anger over slavery. Wasn’t it just ‘some people doing some things’ back then?
“All the world is sad and dreary,
Ev’rywhere I roam.
Oh, darkies, how my heart grows weary,
Far from the old folks at home
Far from the old folks at home
Far from the old folks at home
Far from the old folks at home.”
The comments objecting to the ad make a good point. I think ancestry probably should have removed the it.
The violent version of the story ignores the many claims of romantic love between blacks and whites that also occurred. One of the early Jesuit presidents of Georgetown University from 1874 to 1882, Patrick Francis Healy, was born in slavery from a white Irish-American plantation owner and an enslaved African-American mother. His father purchased the freedom of his children and wife.
He grew up, served a hitch in the Navy, and became an athletics coach at a college in New England. He eventually married a white girl. They now have some fine kids. We enjoy having them visit when they're in our area.