From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sat Sep 07 2002 - 10:38:45 MDT
Olga Bourlin wrote:
>...In Randall Robinson's book, ``The Debt,'' Robinson advocates a national
>trust supported by government, corporations and other institutions that
>benefited by slavery, to pay for enriching the education of black children...
>Olga
>
I guess I shouldn't hang out by the mailbox waiting for my
check then.
Regarding that ancestry, we think happened is this: my
great^3 grandmother's family evidently adopted a slave child
who was born in 1860, or by some means came into her care.
In any case, when the census taker came by, the 10 yr old girl
listed everyone's name. Perhaps she was the only one home,
so the census taker assumed everyone in the home was her
blood relative, so I end up with a government-issued document
showing my ancestor (one of the other children in the adopted
girl's family) was black, and lived in the U.S. before the civil
war, thereby making me the apparent descendant of a slave.
I havent applied for any benefits from the NAACP however.
spike
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