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