John Rolfe and little Indian girl named Pocahontas
Stephen Hopkins
The Bolling family of Virginia ancestry of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Martha
The Byrds another first family of Virginia
The Majure Huguenot family of South Carolina
William Dunbar of Natchez who tried to repatriate his slaves and did some...south's largest barrel maker for flatboats...the Malcolm McClean of his era
And many subsequent southerners who owned few slaves and smallish acreage ...counted in 100s of acres
Most migrated west into the old southwest and fought with Andrew Jackson against the mostly white red sticks in a nasty political war which carried over into Oklahoma as an internal Cherokee war tween Watie and Ross factions...a reflection of your favorite war btw..
My wife's ancestry is more gentry with Wades and Barksdales and Other notables
Nearly all those families had slaves. They were a product of their times and people on both sides of the issue understand that and very few.....who were called radicals in that era for a reason virtue signaled over it all like you guys do.
Not ashamed but proud. Also proud we've held onto some semblance of our custom and manners and God fearing nature .
You missed my point entirely. I said “Confederate ancestors if you had any.’’
I don’t ‘’virtue signal’’. My people were the immigrant Irish working class and settled in New Jersey. My mothers people came here in the late 1840s.
Her great grandfather was William C. Grace, Chief Medical Steward for The Surgeon Generals Office in DC during the CW.
He wrote The Army Surgeons Manual. You can buy it on line.
My fathers people arrived here at the turn of the century and were trades people.
Neither of my parents ancestors owned slaves.
By your own admission here yours did.