Was looking for documentation as usual and stumbled upon this awful thing! Knew I must add this to his profile, any and all documentation tells the true story of our ancestors.
Selling people like his livestock. Outraged me, he's my great-grandfather, but a shameful man. The old saying that this was going on for generations from England to America doesn't excuse him.
I recently came across an ancestor that emancipated their enslaved people in their last will and testament and set aside semi- yearly payments to them for their lifetime. That man came from generations of people that accepted slavery.
We learn from the past and move forward,
