“The two great-great-grandfathers, James McConnell and Richard Daley, owned a total of at least 14 slaves in Limestone County, Alabama ...”
Who didn’t? My cousin/genealogist documented 2 owned by gggf in 1700’s. Do I still have a claim?
Limestone Co., AL is only about 40 miles up I-65 from me. Wonder how they got to KY.
I have seen documentation that my ggggf owned slaves in SC in the late 1700’s. The Civil War and the Great Depression sent the family to the bottom of the economic heap. They had nothing by the middle of the Depression.