Black family in Georgia passed down a song through the centuries after slavery. Researchers linked song to Mende tribe in West Africa.

[Ish Gibor]

Excellent post. The saying "put yourself in another persons shoes" is the very best way to gain understanding.

It is as if you hear of a snitch who told on other slaves trying to escape.
Maybe the snitch knew the escape plan was a bad one, and EVERYBODY would be punished.
Feet cut off etc.

As it is mentioned that house slaves did not live in luxury, and were not happy.

The lady in the video appeared on the verge of crying at any second.
We need real truthful history, to progress and heal.

I’ve been looking up more to understand this part of history. It’s complicated.

“The legal system was stacked against Black citizens, with former Confederate soldiers working as police and judges, making it difficult for African Americans to win court cases and ensuring they were subject to Black codes”

Jim Crow Laws: Definition, Facts & Timeline | HISTORY

Jim Crow laws were state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. Enacted after the Civil War, the laws denied equal opportunity to Black citizens.

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[Uncouth Savage]

I’ve been looking up more to understand this part of history. It’s complicated.

“The legal system was stacked against Black citizens, with former Confederate soldiers working as police and judges, making it difficult for African Americans to win court cases and ensuring they were subject to Black codes”

Jim Crow Laws: Definition, Facts & Timeline | HISTORY

Jim Crow laws were state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. Enacted after the Civil War, the laws denied equal opportunity to Black citizens.

www.history.com

Why did the pope fear the templars?
Organization/Secrets etc

You can trace most of these things as a cobweb to certain groups and men

For example, there was a deeper fear with "black wallstreet" in Tulsa
Even in the movie, you will see some of the guys wearing their rings.

Choices are made and have always been made.
To sell or not to sell
To tell or not to tell
To be or not to be

Put it like this
I hire you, and make sure your life and that of your family is better,
YOU OWE ME
And will do what I say

All this what I am saying might seem confusing, what I am saying is, some have choices, some do not.
And some think they free, and are not.

 

[Ish Gibor]

Why did the pope fear the templars?
Organization/Secrets etc

You can trace most of these things as a cobweb to certain groups and men

For example, there was a deeper fear with "black wallstreet" in Tulsa
Even in the movie, you will see some of the guys wearing their rings.

Choices are made and have always been made.
To sell or not to sell
To tell or not to tell
To be or not to be

Put it like this
I hire you, and make sure your life and that of your family is better,
YOU OWE ME
And will do what I say

All this what I am saying might seem confusing, what I am saying is, some have choices, some do not.
And some think they free, and are not.

The more digging is done the more is being revealed.

In this video a descendant of a confederate soldier is being interviewed. If you convince this man with strong enough arguments, he willingly will go back to the plantation his ancestors once were.

And work his ass off for free, even will try to recruit other Blacks to join him.



“Only a few Black men were ever accepted into Confederate service as soldiers and none did any significant fighting. Through most of the war, the Confederate government’s official policies toward Black men maintained that those men were laborers, not soldiers; changes to that policy in March 1865 came too late to make any difference to Confederate prospects for victory.”

Black Confederates - Encyclopedia Virginia

African Americans Respond to the Outbreak of War Pickets of the First Louisiana “Native Guard” Guarding the New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad When the state of Louisiana announced its secession on January 26, 1861, a group of free Black men from New Orleans offered their...

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[Skooby]

Remember, those genetic tests like 23andMe and Ancestry.com, those test are accurate only back 4 -5 generations. Also remember, you count yourself as a generation in genetic testing. That's your 2-times great grandparents. Those tests will not tell you who your ancestors were from 200+ years ago.

 

[Ish Gibor]

Remember, those genetic tests like 23andMe and Ancestry.com, those test are accurate only back 4 -5 generations. Also remember, you count yourself as a generation in genetic testing. That's your 2-times great grandparents. Those tests will not tell you who your ancestors were from 200+ years ago.

That's the autosomal test you are referring at. But there are other ways to determine the age of a nucleotide.

“If you're using an autosomal test such as AncestryDNA, 23andMe, or MyHeritage, you'll generally go back 6 to 8 generations. Assuming 25 years per generation, you can expect 150-200 years of DNA information by taking an autosomal DNA test.”
[…]
An mtDNA or mitochondrial DNA test will show generations that are both recent and distant. However, your individual results may vary.

For example, if you match someone on HVR1, then your chances are about 50% of finding that you share a mutual maternal ancestor dating back over 52 generations, or around 1,300 years.

If you match someone on both HVR1 and HVR2, this will mean that there’s a 50% chance that you share a related maternal ancestor over the last 700 years or 28 generations.

Now, if you match on a Mitochondrial DNA Full Genomic Sequence, then this will show you the most recent results. This will give you a 50% chance that you share a common mutual maternal ancestor dating back over the last 125 years or previous five generations.

Moreover, the Mitochondrial DNA testing that they do at Family Tree DNA will include haplogroup testing. The haplogroup will help you discover your ancient ancestral origins going back over 10,000 years.
[…]
If you choose to do a YDNA or mtDNA test, this type of DNA will provide you with ancestors that originated over 10,000 years ago. This is why it’s essential that you check your test out first to see exactly what type of DNA it analyzes, so you can choose the test that goes as far back as you were wanting.”

How Many Generations Does DNA Go Back - Genealogy Explained

Researching your genealogy is a great way to discover many different things about you that you didn’t know. A commons question I'm asked is, how many

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Estimating the age of single nucleotide polymorphic sites in humans - Genes & Genomics

Background Determining the ages of polymorphic sites in human genomes needs to be carried out in a careful balance between the degree of complexity of the approach and the desired accuracy. Objective We provide evidence that a simpler approach where age determination is based upon the degree to...

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