Found a Picture of my Great Great Great Grandparents, Born in the 1830s

[sfgiants]

They were styling... I’m not exactly sure how they had the $, but I do know my great^3 grandfather was born free even though he was born in 1831. His grandfather bought his freedom for $400 from his half brother after his father died. “It is believed that *******. married one of Dr. Stuart's slaves’s but could not emancipate her. Nonetheless, he did succeed in purchasing the freedom, one by one, of all eight of his children - five sons and three daughters.” I had a cousin in the 80s who researched most of our genealogy back to the 1700s. Ancestry.com matches up with his summary, and some of the entries have pictures which is where I found this

this is dope
There’s a woman who colorizes old ass pics like these, would be cool to see it in color and see the colors of their outfits poppin

 

[JadeB]

happened to me . Grandad on my mother's side of the family. Thought he was full Native American.
I was wrong. I was never in the family history like that and should have been.

got a letter in the mail a few years back for a family reunion . i was like cool we'll go . opened the letter and the reunion was to be held at the abominable1 family plantation in South Carolina ,
i was like , they done sent this shyt to the wrong people .

my wife was like , better go ask your mother .

drive over to Mom's and she was like yeah , that' s your grandad's people
and damn if she ain't got the same invitation letter sitting on her table.

great grandad was a straight cac who married went to NC and married a native
bought her back to SC and the old man was like , hol' up playa - might as well as bought a nikka back here and sent him back to NC.
Over the next century , the family in NC turned black

and apparently so di the ones in SC did too
went to the reunion , black cousins live on the property , a few hundred acres


the natives family from SC come down and straight shytted on the YT family.

accused them of stealing the land from another set of SC indians and putting the plantation up with stolen money as well
but it turned out okay , no fights, family still talking.

anyways

not tot takeaway from OP POST ,that is awesome. Beautiful family

Nobody purely one race in the South apparently

Even Jeb got an African great-granddady

 

[JadeB]

Nice, OP

 

[Idaeo]

 

[SheWantTheD]

Amazing.

Nothing but respect!

 

[Mfalme_Perez]

Unc laid back as hell, very photogenic.

 

[MrFantastic]

Props love seeing stuff like this!

 

[gldnone913]

That's dope! Wonder if my folks got old pics of the great greats

 

[TEH]

This is a treasure OP
I wish I could find something like this




In fact - sorry - a digression - the only good about social media is that future generations will be able to find us and see how much their great grandfather loved Instagram hoes and talking shyt.

 

[IAMDetroit]

Them ADOS nikkas gon say u ain't black.
Props to you tho. That shyt touches my soul breh

 

[Monsanto]

Damn I got a big smile on my face like he's my kin.

 

[Geode]

Great pics! You're lucky to have them.

 

[315]

There pictures on the wall at my paternal grandmother’s house that go back about that far

 

[CodeKansas]

That hairstyle is incredible.

 

[Lord_nikon]

NICE