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Old 05-06-2010, 05:24 PM
 
Location: Georgia
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I saw a picture years ago of one of My ancestors. He was driving a wagon and on the back of the wagon were a couple of Blacks. I think the Picture was from the 1850s,So I assume those people of the back of the wagon were their slaves.
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Old 05-06-2010, 06:17 PM
 
Location: Parts Unknown, Northern California
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A couple of years ago my sister got interested in family history and used Ancestry.com to dig up the records. On my father's side you found a group of North Caolinians who relocated to Missouri, bringing their four slaves with them. There were four brothers and their families and when the Civil War began, three of the brothers joined Union regiments, one of them became a regimental surgeon for the Confederates. The records indicate that all four slaves owned by the family were freed during the war, but does not provide the specifics. The Emancipation Proclamation did not cover slaves in Missouri, so they would have been freed by their owners if it happened during the war.
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Old 05-06-2010, 06:19 PM
 
Location: Georgia
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A couple of years ago my sister got interested in family history and used Ancestry.com to dig up the records. On my father's side you found a group of North Caolinians who relocated to Missouri, bringing their four slaves with them. There were four brothers and their families and when the Civil War began, three of the brothers joined Union regiments, one of them became the regimental surgeon for the Confederates. The records indicate that all four slaves owned by the family were freed during the war, but does not provide the specifics. The Emancipation Proclamation did not cover slaves in Missouri, so they would have been freed by their owners if it happened during the war.

My Ancestors were Farmers. By the beginning of the 20th Century they were working for the Copper Mines in Copper Hill,Tennessee. I guess Mining made more than Farming.
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Old 05-06-2010, 07:53 PM
 
Location: Fairfield, CT
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I've heard that some of my ancestors were slave owners, but I really don't know for sure.
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Old 05-06-2010, 08:26 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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I've traced my ancestry back to an ancestor who was a friend of George Washington, living near Charlottesville, Virginia, whose will left about 50 slaves, I forget the exact number. His will exists to this day, probated in 1803. He also owned about 1,000 acres of land. That would be worth a couple of million. But, assuming about 3 heirs per generation, I would now have inherited about 1/6,000 of that, or a couple of hundred bucks.
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Old 05-06-2010, 09:00 PM
 
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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Yes, a bunch of my VA ancestors had slaves and took some along when they moved to KY and MO. One was even a fugitive slave hunter who traveled from MO into TX (when it belonged to Mexico) to capture escaped slaves in exchange for bounties paid by holders of the slaves' mortgages.
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Old 05-07-2010, 02:50 AM
 
Location: North Carolina
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Yes, similarly, my grandmother had a picture of our ancestors in Kentucky pre Civil War with some black people so she assumed they were slaves. I have since found my ancestor from the photo in the 1850 and 1860 Slave Schedule. After that, I found another ancestor also in Kentucky who was a slave owner. I would like to find out the names of the slaves but it's proved difficult, if not impossible.

Even after the Civil War, they had black servants and workers living with them on the 1870 census - so they were named now but I have no way of knowing if they were the slaves from the former censuses or not.
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Old 05-07-2010, 09:07 AM
 
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No, no slave owners. In fact the family farm in Ohio, which has been in the family for generations, was a stop on the Underground Railroad. There was a cellar hidden underneath the barn floor where slaves were hidden as they passed further North. The remains of it can still be seen today.

My family has always been what could be called progressive. My grandparents where schoolteachers and taught classes, after WWI and into the 1940s, where they freely mixed blacks and whites in the same classroom. They believed every person, male or female, black or white, should know how to read and write. They often went to the "colored church", as it was called back then, to worship. (The "colored church" was Baptist which caused my Methodist grandparents some consternation over doctrine.)
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Old 05-07-2010, 09:58 AM
 
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Yup, half of my family descends from a slave-holding Kentucky family, and the other half from Connecticut Yankees....
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Old 05-07-2010, 11:05 AM
 
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I saw a picture years ago of one of My ancestors. He was driving a wagon and on the back of the wagon were a couple of Blacks. I think the Picture was from the 1850s,So I assume those people of the back of the wagon were their slaves.
Very unlikely. Your father may have been a teamster or another farm worker, barely a level above the slave. Some of the white farm workers of those times didn't live much better thans slaves in terms of living conditions (except for the obvious and large difference of freedom). It wasn't cheap to own a slave, and those that could afford to own a slave would not likely be bothered driving a wagon to transport slaves.
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