AFAIK, in 1860 about 20% of families in the slave states owned slaves. Lots of those were probably relatively poor farmers - slaves or no, small farmers in the 19th century weren't that wealthy. Also, since when does the Christian god condemn entire family lines? Is slavery even forbidden by the bible?

Least racist /b/tard.

Anon sounds entitled AF. Has he tried not relying on nepotism for getting ahead?

I hear that. My grandfather was descended of German nobility. Nothing major, but he was the son of a prince. To be clear: a complete nobody even when German nobility was still a thing pre-WW1. After the war, they pretty much abolished all that in a revolution.

But basically, if I go back four generations, we owned a ‘castle’ somewhere. Meanwhile, I’m solidly in the peasant class.

Oh wait till you hear about my family.

My family was French Aristocracy that faked their deaths and moved to America to avoid the French Revolution

Then they owned slaves, but the deeds to their plantations and land and shit were burned in a slave revolt and they lost it all.

Then they helped found the Klan and became poor white trash.....

We could have been rich and not lived in America. But no we had to become poor AND racist.

You know, often in these green text posts I have a takeaway that at least attempts sympathy toward the anon.

Fuckin nope, not here.

I would say its so hilariously pathetic that its a bit, but I've met people that are unironically like this.

Anon, you only exist because Sherman didn't finish the job.

He should have.

Here, a song for you before you meet your God:

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,

With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me;

As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,

while God is marching on.

Oh, imagine a world where that describes current day 'Republican Jesus'.

My idea of a 'white man's burden' is that its our job to rid the planet of all these melanin deprived slavers and 'ante bellum nostalgics'.

Its really the least we could do, at this point.

EDIT:

... you know who I can trace my lineage back to?

Father's father's father's... etc, was a goddamn miscreant, some kind of petty criminal that got shipped out of I think somewhere in or near Wales, to Vrigina, in the 1720s.

His sons fought in the Revolutionary War, some died in it, some didn't.

One of those sons had his own sons... one of them... a Reverend.

A Reverend that moved out of Vrigina, out to Kansas in the 1850s.

Where he founded an anti-slavery Baptist church.

Around which, he helped to build a small town.

A small town where an escaped slave from Missouri was able to purchase his own land, work his own land, and from the proceeds of it, buy the official freedom of himself and his family, before the Emancipation Proclamation and/or 13th Amendment would make that last step unnecessary.

Now I can't say with 100% complete certainty that this Reverend ancestor of mine ever met John Brown... but uh, given a fairly small number of anti-slavery Reverends running around this particular part of Kansas, in the exact same time frame as John Brown... and that they were both part of the general Free-State movement...

... seems more likely than not.

Be family

Need Slaves

No money

Remeber slaves are literally slaves and cost nothing

Get slaves

I don't think you have to be rich to own slaves.

Edit: Some of ya'll don't understand what shitposting is.

‘Curse you Eli Whitney!’

• Anon maybe idk

Any wealth inheritance has been divided amongst an unknown number of heirs for the last, what 5 generations? 7? That shit's long gone.

Owning slaves was like owning a tractor. Your ancestors werent rich they were just lazy. Like you and your dad, who's a Wendy's manager at 57.