Posted on 07/28/2014 7:41:23 AM PDT by C19fan
Exploring his family's past for the first time, Richard Roxburgh uncovered a darker history than he anticipated- finding out his forefathers were enthusiastic supporters of the slave trade. The 52 year-old actor says he'd originally hoped the search would find his relatives 'lived good and rich lives, and contributed something.' But participating in the SBS series Who Do You Think You Are turned up a very different history.
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'Thomas was the ultimate capitalist,' the actor says. 'To my mind, it’s about the choices that you make in this life, and he made his choice. And they wouldn’t be my choices. He was a cog in the corporate machinery that presided over one of the ugliest periods in human history'
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Hey,Richie, kill yourself! Then,we’ll be square.
Perhaps your great-great-grandfather (note lack of commas) had other, better character traits.
Regards,
Thats about a low as it gets throwing your family under the bus.
My guess is that just about everyone alive today probably had an ancestor who was a slave or owned a slave at some time during human being’s existence on the planet.
Just a point but I can barely impact my children’s behavior. My ancestors are somehow even less responsive.
That’s so interesting. I didn’t realize there were many Europeans here around 1560.
There weren’t a lot and few settlements survived but there were lots of attempts. In fact none of the settlements at that point made it.
St Augustine Florida is the oldest continuously populated settlement from around that time. Sault Ste. Marie Michigan wasn’t long after.
I still think the funniest one was when black comedienne Wanda Hicks (is that right name I ask myself?) - her ancestors owned slaves. lol She imagined her ancestors were slaves but found out some gr, gr whatever was a free black man who owned slaves. I thought she was going to cry right there on tv.
Of course she postured that it was just to save those slaves from being owned by someone who was mean to them so he bought them from the goodness of his heart (or some such similar bull).
You know in researching my family history, I found several that owed slaves as well. I even have a copy of a will that states the two slaves he owned, a married man and woman were to be given a place to live and taken care of.
I thought it was very interesting. You cannot run away from your ancestry good or bad.
I love it! God truly does have a sense of humor.
So then I had to look it up. I didn’t think Hicks sounded right. It’s Wanda Sykes - she actually half white and her white ancestor was beaten (lashed) for consorting with a negro slave - so it was the white side of her that was abused.
And she had 2 ancestors that were black that owned slaves, not just one.
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