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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op - are you saying the wealth (which tbh is not much at all) was somehow derived from slaves?  If that’s factually true, how many generations back are we talking?

I kinda think you are imagining a problem where there isn’t one at all.

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" The money is largely from land and assets derived from former plantations." What's not clear about that? [/quote]

Umm…not clear is slavery was involved, and what era?  Plantations exist in the world today.  Nothing inherently evil about a place that grows crops.[/quote]

Please do let me know of a plantation in the Mississippi Delta that was not founded on slave labor.

"Land and slaves were the foundation of the settlement of Mississippi, the heart of antebellum America’s Cotton Kingdom....Large cotton plantations characterized the western counties, where the Mississippi River’s alluvial soils attracted wealthy slave owners willing to pay top dollar for the richest cotton-producing lands. The counties of the Natchez District and the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta boasted many of the wealthiest planters and some of the highest proportions of enslaved people (often more than two-thirds) in the United States."

(https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/slavery-and-settlement/)

But maybe there was a commune of free laborers who collectively founded a plantation in the Mississippi Delta  that somehow made OP's ancestor's rich? As a historian, I insist we study that magical place.
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