The most common last names for #ADOS

[Solomon Caine]

That's great.

But, many AADOS have taken on these names for many reasons -- and have deep history attached to them. We should not be shamed -- or ashamed to have them either. We are STILL using these last names to connect with family we lost contact with from enslavement.

I recently connected with my 3rd maternal Great Grannie's sister's line. All because of that last name. They must have lost connection after reconstruction -- or the families just did.

On names -- If one chooses to change it -- so be it - I support it.

But, when I think of my last name I think of my enslaved ancestors -- and I'm proud -- of what they they endured -- and it gives me strength to know I can get through damn near anything.

I feel you breh.. I shoulda explained it properly. I’m speaking on immigrants who had different cultures where ‘surnames’ don’t exist. They have a more linier name, where it’s the son, father, grandfather and so on.

But they have taken for example a grandfathers name and made it their surname for their whole family. In a way they adapt their names so they don’t stand out!

 

[Everythingg]

Slave names

Not every black person was a slave bruh

 

[Everythingg]

nope,once they saw you where black, that was it. you where going to get the blunt end of the stick regardless.

The Moors Sundry Act of 1790 was a 1790 advisory resolution passed by South Carolina House of Representatives, clarifying the status of free subjects of the Sultan of Morocco, Mohammed ben Abdallah. The resolution offered the opinion that free citizens of Morocco were not subject to laws governing blacks and slaves.

On January 20, 1790, a petition was presented to the South Carolina House of Representatives from a group of four individuals who were subjects of the Moroccan emperor and residents of the state. They desired that if they happened to commit any fault amenable to be brought to justice, that as subjects to a prince allied with the United States through the Moroccan–American Treaty of Friendship, they would be tried as citizens instead of under the Negro Act of 1740.

Hopefully you see that despite the Moors having "black skin" they were granted exemptions from the laws that governed blacks.

 

[George's Dilemma]

Top 150 That explains why I ain't like the rest of you. I should have been Nigerian. Might have to do that ancestry thing to get the truth.