do you have any family members who was slaves, do you know their names?

Question

were they slaves. ask yuor oldest family member inyour family doidthey had one.

Answer 1

My family immigrated in the 1890's from Europe; however, I did have an ancestor that paid for his voyage to America by working for the wealthy gentleman who paid for it. So I do have indentured servants in my line. Their conditions weren't always ideal either. To read about indentured servitude, wiki has a great article on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servant

Answer 2

Get over it for Chrisssakes. Were you a slave? Do you have friends that have family killed in Germany in an oven or a gas shower? Do they wine all day about it? This is 2007. I am sick and tired of reverse racism where everyone wants someone else to pay forever for what people did decades and decades ago. I am white and am discriminated against even though my family lived in europe during slavery. And..by the way......the black tribal leaders were SELLING their own people as slaves to the whites. Nobody seems to have a problem with that.

Answer 3

first of all, no one living in this country ever owned slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation(issued by Lincoln 1863 during the Civil War). The last civil war veterans died in like the 1960s. Because I am white and from Virginia i had family members way back when who owned slaves. I wont say the name cause i am not too proud about it.

Answer 4

Since genealogy is regarding ANCESTORS, is that what you are searching? I doubt that you intended it, but it sounded as if you were directing the question to anyone who is living. As pointed out, slavery in this country ended in 1865, so it isn't even feasible that living persons could apply to this.
On the other hand, if you are trying to research ancestry that included slaves, you should be able to locate family members listed on the 1870 census, and if adults, there is a high probability that they had been slaves just 10 yrs before. Many took the last name of their former owner's family, since they did not have surnames of their own.
Avoiding stereotypes on either side... many Southern families had affection for their slaves. One source for tracking parentage is hit and miss, but if a slave owner died in the period shortly before the Civil War, you may be able to find estate records. In those records, it is not impossible to locate reference to children with ages, and even noted as child of the mother and her name. For example... the will/ probate record might mention (in 1860) that James is age 5, and his mother Sarah is age 35. 20 yrs later, you might find James, now age 25; and mother Sarah living in his home, in the same county. You may find that his last name in 1880 is consistent with the earlier probate, confirming who he lived with. You would also want to research deed records for the former owner, since it can show that he bought them in 1855 (and from who), or maybe it would include the name of Sarah's husband/ partner.
Researching ancestry that comes from slavery is tough. But it can be done.
Many persons with ancestry from the South are aware that at one time, their family owned slaves. It was a sad fact of life at the time, but not something that someone today can take responsibility, or guilt, for. That is a battle which has nothing to do with trying to find family history.

Answer 5

I learned while researching that exactly one ancestor's son owned some slaves so I made them a separate tree online at rootsweb.com from what I learned and for instance what I could find of them on censuses, children, grandchildren, &c. Quakers in New York bugged the old guy so much that he freed them before he died, I think about 1804 but have not found that documentation to learn how & when it was done. I learned that one of his children also married a free black, another of free mixed heritage. I documented this for descendants to find someday.

Answer 6

No and since I am white and my family came from Irland and had nothing to do with this stuff yet it shoved down my throat about all this black history and slavery that my family had nothing to do with! There lots others the same as me.

Answer 7

I know from my maternal grandma that our family was slaves (on mom's side) I don't
know their names though.

Answer 8

Nope.

Answer 9

nope...not that I know of

Answer 10

=no