Slavers in your family past?

[cronus]

Diggin' around the ol' family tree. Discover you are related to slavers? Should this be a big deal? Afterall anyone with any wealth a couple of hundred years ago owned a plantation with a few slaves. Didn't they?

[Animavore]

No. I'm Irish.

[cronus]

As far as I can tell they sold up in the 1840's - about the time the money in it dried up. So not all bad. Didn't keep flogging a dead horse until the civil war.

[Tero]

You needed slaves then, cause there were no tractors. Horses are too dumb to be tractors.

[cronus]

You needed slaves then, cause there were no tractors. Horses are too dumb to be tractors.

Nothing like today.

[laklak]

Yep. My mom's family owned slaves back in the day, and my Dad was Irish, so I'm both a slave an a slave owner.

[Svartalf]

Diggin' around the ol' family tree. Discover you are related to slavers? Should this be a big deal? Afterall anyone with any wealth a couple of hundred years ago owned a plantation with a few slaves. Didn't they?

My mother'ss family is from Nantes, and my dad's from Bordeaux, it would be surprising if I didn't have some slavers somewhere up the old tree.

[JimC]

I suspect I come from peasant stock...

[Tyrannical]

As far as I can tell they sold up in the 1840's - about the time the money in it dried up. So not all bad. Didn't keep flogging a dead horse until the civil war.

Slave trading from Africa was treated as piracy, so executing slavers killed the western slave trade.

Oh, and slavery is still technically legal in the US as punishment for a crime. It's been a long time since we've had a prisoner slave auction though...... If illegal immigration was punishable by slavery

[NineBerry]

I come from a long line of poor peasants.

[rainbow]

I suspect I come from peasant stock...

http://www.thefield.co.uk/food/recipes/ ... cipe-21716

[JimC]