My ancestors were definitely slaves. Virginia apparently.pic.twitter.com/Jh039Cnj2C
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My ancestors were definitely slaves. Virginia apparently.pic.twitter.com/Jh039Cnj2C
Whitfield is the American branch of the British aristocrats, Whitefield.
Apparently they owned land & slaves. At least 4,000 slaves from North Carolina all the way to Texas.
There were multiple owners by the name of whitfield too. A Gaius Whitfield. Nathan Bryan Whitfield. And a George Whitefield.
Gaius & Nathan were related. Oh. There was also another brother named Needham whitfield.
The one by the name of Whitefield was an evangelical preacher who preached against slavery and then got slaves.pic.twitter.com/NkvcnfguRq
He wanted an orphanage & deemed it impossible to bring to fruition without slaves. So people gave him slaves.
He went from being an abolitionist to actually rallying behind the legalization of slavery. I just. Cannot.
It’s amazing how history calls Slave owners “planters”. They didn’t plant shit.
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