It turns out that the cackling hen on The View who is always talking about reparations is the descendent of a slave-trader
Haha ,me too. I have told you before Para that I am half Puerto Rican. I am probably a descendant of Spanish slave traders as I definitely have Spanish lineage.
I inadvertently started a dup thread on this. Here's the Paul Joseph Watson video that I thought to be quite amusing
February 10, 2024, 09:43 AM
Jim Shugart
The problem with worrying about your distant ancestors is the fact the number of them doubles every time you move back a generation (2ⁿ). If you go back to before the emancipation of the slaves, let's say 175 years, if a new generation comes along every 25 years then that makes > 100 ancestors (2⁷=128). That's a lotta people - not unlikely to include slave owners, horse thieves, maybe even a democrat or two.
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw
February 10, 2024, 09:54 AM
ArtieS
It's a point of pride in my family that I had a relative in Jolly Old England who was renowned for getting drunk and disorderly on Saturday night, clapped in the stocks, and pelted with rotten vegetables by pious church-going Christians on Sunday morning.
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.
February 10, 2024, 10:15 AM
sigfreund
Unless someone can determine that every one of their ancestors were only the aboriginal inhabitants of Puerto Rico, how could they not know that some of them had to have come from someplace else, and most likely Spain (you know, the language and all that)?
Okay, for some people that’s a rhetorical question in this day and age, I suppose, but aren’t people in/from Puerto Rico (that Spanish, again) taught anything about the history of the island? Do they believe that all of their ancestors just sprang out of the ground one day? I know that’s a belief or at least doctrine among some ethnic groups, but the level of some people’s ignorance is literally astounding.
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I can tell at sight a Chassepot rifle from a javelin.
February 10, 2024, 10:42 AM
YooperSigs
My half sister has researched my family history back to before the Revolutionary War and has now become a member of D.A.R. I dont recall any of her research that mentioned anything about slave ownership. What type of research can disclose that?
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February 10, 2024, 06:39 PM
buddy357
In some cases the census records list the slaves. And the head of household was generally listed. I assume that’s at least how some are figured out. I spent some time tracing my family back. Looked at a lot of census records on Ancestry while trying to trace families back
