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Probably true. Then again, there were still some slaves in the North in 1860.
Sure. But not nearly as many as in the South.
Probably true. Then again, there were still some slaves in the North in 1860.
That figure likely includes the North and slaves themselves.
What a pussy. Unless all your relatives came from the post-Civil War Ellis Island boom, which is highly unlikely, you are highly likely to be related to slaveholders. You are also highly likely to be related to somebody who did nefarious shit on some other continent somewhere and people who did great things. That's what makes genealogy interesting. Affleck seems like a pretty smart dude, but I guess he lives in a bubble or with the hope of a political future where he has to control all information about himself.
my earliest relatives came from Germany in the mid-1700s and were Quakers. The rest were later german or swedes and never owned slaves. relatives fought in the Rev and Civil War (for the winners, obvi). genealogy research to back. it. up.
#southOUT suck it, losers!!111
Along with freed blacks that owned slaves.
And white slaves.
My brother did a lot of genealogical research on our mother's family (Pitt Co., NC). According to a will, they had one slave back in the early 1800's. I'm glad my mother passed away before hearing that.
i would bet money many, many of the posters on OGB have ancestor(s) who were slave owners.
"After 1812, and until 1850, maintaining the balance of free and slave state votes in the Senate was considered of paramount importance if the Union were to be preserved, and states were typically admitted in pairs."
"Though ratified in 1995, the state never officially notified the U.S. archivist, which kept the ratification unofficial until 2013, when Ken Sullivan contacted the office of Secretary of State of Mississippi, Delbert Hosemann, who agreed to file the paperwork and make it official."
Did not know either of these bits of knowledge.
I would bet money that every single person here has at least one embarrassing living relative. It's just a blogspam story that should not even be published.
So wait a second...MS wasn't an official state in the Union until 2013. Delbert Hosemann better make sure this story doesn't come out. He is likely to be impeached.
Slave owning was a common practice among those who could afford it. Any white family with roots in the South probably has a slave owning ancestor somewhere. The math just works out that way.
No doubt true, but still a shock to see written evidence of it. Along those lines, my brother has also traced that side of the family back to their English roots. He once called me to tell me we were related to Edward I (Longshanks). I didn't really give a shit about that and told him to let me know when he figured out we were related to somebody cool, like El Cid. He laughed and told me we were. The math works out that almost everybody has a royal something or other in their bloodlines. It's actually possible that almost everyone of European descent is related to Mohammed.
No doubt true, but still a shock to see written evidence of it. Along those lines, my brother has also traced that side of the family back to their English roots. He once called me to tell me we were related to Edward I (Longshanks). I didn't really give a shit about that and told him to let me know when he figured out we were related to somebody cool, like El Cid. He laughed and told me we were. The math works out that almost everybody has a royal something or other in their bloodlines. It's actually possible that almost everyone of European descent is related to Mohammed.
And your point is?
Less than two percent of people in the US in 1860 owned slaves.