I think the point Nathan Bedford was making is your comment on “anyone emigrating after 1863 and their descendants” still clarifies nothing without detailed genealogical records.
Example: my husband’s family only talked about being second generation Italians, because of his mother. Thus, disqualifying him from having to pay to slaves, right? But then we look at his dad’s family, and there are more late 19th century/early 20th century immigrants, but then we find a solitary link...back to the coastal regions of Va in 1639 (the hotbed of colonial slavery).
Does it matter if 95% of your ancestors were late-comers to the US if you have one potential slave owner?
Imagine: just going back to the early 1800’s, regardless of where your family was at the time, you’d have over 100 great-great-great-great-great (give or take a great) grandparents. Would you need proof that each of these individuals (and then back to the early half of the 1600’s when the US first began to import slaves) was slave free?
Think the IRS employs lots of people? Just imagine the Department of Genealogy!
Then to go further: if someone fought (and died= extra negative points?) in the Civil War on the Union side, how many potential slave owning ancestors can that wipe out.
The entire thing is a farce that is merely red meat to wave in front of the BLM crowd.
“The entire thing is a farce that is merely red meat to wave in front of the BLM crowd.”
The Blaze proved Shaun King and BLM were a farce yesterday. Shaun King is as white as Rachel Dolezal.
Shaun should pay beck who he fleeced first. He has scammed millions, and his bogus victim story was in Forbes.
It could get very complicated. I know of one ancestor who owned some slaves because I saw them mentioned in his will. But my Scots-Irish Covenanter ancestors abhorred slavery, and my 2nd great-grandfather served in the Union Army for the entire Civil War, right down to Sherman’s March. That should count for something. Throw into the mix the wild card of my Catawba ancestors, and I think maybe I should get some dough coming my way.