I’ve noticed that anytime people bring up documented examples like free Black ancestors, early court cases, or military service in the 1700s, there’s immediate resistance even when records exist.
I’ve noticed that anytime people bring up documented examples like free Black ancestors, early court cases, or military service in the 1700s, there’s immediate resistance even when records exist.
Names, stories or anything interesting.
She always some other French, Spain and other odd DNA traces none of her kids have 👀
In Lawmen: Bass Reeves, a Seminole woman says her people never surrendered and never made a treaty. She also makes it clear that they were never enslaved.
A freedman is someone who was enslaved and later freed.
A freeman is someone who was never conquered or enslaved to begin with.
Her son represents something many people overlook, not everyone’s story starts with slavery and ends with freedom. Some never lost it in the first place. That’s a different kind of history. 💯 The writers dug deep for this information.
I found documents from the 1700s, Virginia colonies for my 6th great grandfather. Source: Virginia library
Wyandot Reservation in Ohio Upper Sandusky before the Civil War. Protected by Indigenous sovereignty. The Fugitive Slave Act could not touch them there.