My ancestors were too damn poor to own slaves. In fact, most of my ancestors died in the Civil War that SOLVED the slavery issue once and for all. Consider all debts to blacks by me paid in full.
Mine, too. Genealogy is a hobby an I did not find one ancestor who was rich enough to own slaves. Ancestors have been here since the 1600’s. They worked from sun-up to sundown to put enough food on the table. I did have 2 great grandfathers who fought for the South. One made shoes for the soldiers since he was not healthy enough to fight. I am proud of all of them. They did what they thought was right at the time. I have a copy of the enlistment paper for one of them.
“My ancestors were too damn poor to own slaves.”
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Mine too, in fact MOST people in the South were too poor to own slaves. We all have suffered because a very small percentage of people in the South owned slaves, there were slave owners in Northern states too but that is almost never acknowledged now just as the fact that there were black slaveowners is almost never acknowledged.