Posted on 10/05/2015 7:19:01 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
A $100,000 for every day you spent as a slave sounds good to me. If you qualify send your invoice to the government. The Liberal plantation does not count.
If you had ancestors here during slavery then they may have owned slaves. People always think of the plantation owners with hundreds of slaves and there were actually few of them. Many others owned slaves though, most businesses of every kind and size owned slaves, 1 or more. Many middle class people owned at least one house slave to help with the cooking and cleaning as soon as they could afford to.
I was sure my family never owned slaves until I did some genealogy work. My mother’s family were fairly poor so she was sure they never owned slaves. Her grandfather made wooden barrels, and paid taxes on one slave. No one in the family had ever talked about it but there he was on the slave tax rolls paying for his one slave that helped him make barrels. We also found a few others in the family tree that listed one slave as household help.
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But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
ALL of my ancestors came from Poland or Prussia.
If they didn’t arrive here until after slavery then they are off the hook here, but pretty much every civilization had slaves at some point.
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