If our ancestors knew then what we know now they would have picked their own damn cotton.
Most of my ancestors had few slaves
Cattle.....farming....they worked with the slaves...maybe just one family on their place
My wifes great x2 grandfather was one of TNs largest slaveowners...
Levi Wade Belleview plantation Rutherford cty TN
I will have a word with Levi one day i can assure you
Itll be along the lines of “ranks s rot”
I confess I am also common law descended from William Dunbar....Natchez ..
Very very large tract and slaveholder ..
..tried repatriation till govt thwarted him