If you are ever tempted to excuse your ancestors' enslavement of Black people, do this first.
1. Get a drink: water, coffee, tea, wine, beer, gin, whatever appeals.
2. Sit quietly with your thoughts, perhaps walk around the block.
3. Delete your account.
1. Get a drink: water, coffee, tea, wine, beer, gin, whatever appeals.
2. Sit quietly with your thoughts, perhaps walk around the block.
3. Delete your account.
When researching my 7th-great-grandfather, I found his contract for moving from Barbados to Rhode Island. The people included his wife, mother-in-law, brother-in-law, an indentured servant & 3 enslaved people. This was in 1648. One of them, named Mingo, ran away. Good for him.
He was for a time Solicitor General of Rhode Island colony. He also was an asshole. I can note his accomplishments and still hope Mingoe escaped completely and remained a free man. I will not excuse his conduct as being "of the time." Benjamin Lay was of that time & knew better
Here is a pamphlet from Benjamin Lay. There is no excuse. There were abolitionists & anti-racists at the time.
By Benjamin Lay - loc.gov/exhibits/odyss…, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?cu…
By Benjamin Lay - loc.gov/exhibits/odyss…, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?cu…
Oops, here it is 
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