How Do You Feel Having a Slave Masters Last Name?

[Archangel]

I agree with you 1000%. I felt all types of ways when i first saw my results. What happened to our ancestors became more real to me and it f*cking hurt. But i also felt some type of closure because i could finally have some clue of where my people came from.

White folks did a dirty dirty thing to us. Low...bottom of the barrel. Inhumane. Etc.

Just inspired me even more to go through with this ancestry.com thing.

 

[InfinateOpulance]

I wonder what would have happened if slaves were allowed to keep their African names, would the tribalism that exists in Africa also exist here in the US among Afro Americans? Because in Africa your name is used to identify what tribe or ethnic group you come from.

Yes absolutely, tribalism would exist. Its in our dna to divide ourselves. Just look at how divided blacks are in the states.

 

[AlainLocke]

I descend from a prominent line of slave masters that own an entire town and still do til this day.

I hate my name because I didn't pick it...

I plan on changing my name...fukk I look like with a name that someone else gave me shyt...shyt is demeaning.

 

[InfinateOpulance]

Just inspired me even more to go through with this ancestry.com thing.

Do it!



And report back with results! You owe this to yourself and those who died before you.

 

[Malik1time]

I ain't sweating it too much my haitian ancestor probably beheaded that cac Pierre

 

[Easy-E]

Gift and a curse

I share my father's name (granddad too)

He'd hate for me to change it

We already in cold terms as it is

 

[NoChillJones]

My last name is Benson and I'm currently looking at African names to change it. But 1st I'm going to submit an Ancestry.com application to see where my line mostly derived from.

We really walking round outchea with last names that don't belong to us. I read a long time ago that freed slaves would often change their last names to colors like Black, Blue, etc to remove themselves from the heritage of their previous slave owners.

Remember, slave owners wold completely strip slaves of their identity but now we can use the technology to trace back our heritage. We should take advantage of this. If you don't know where you came from, you have no future; you will always be living a lie.

Purify yourselves from the stains of slavery. This country is already full of constant reminders of it's demonic past. Let us not carry around the burden in our own names.

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Your great great grandpartents could have chosen your last name when they obtained freedom...........can't automatically assume your last name is that of a "slave master" per say.

 

[NoChillJones]

You used ancestry.com?

Use "white" websites to free yourself from white ancestry brehs........

 

[Fandroid]

My last name is actually pretty creolized and my dad named me after an important historical figure from our ancestry so I never feel too bad about it.

If I had some generic cac name I'd be pretty mad and would definitely have changed it at some point.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

The last name was given by the government from the last plantation your ancestor could be tracked to.

 

[Fandroid]

After emancipation many freed slaves renamed themselves and ditched their former masters surname.

Is there proof of this? This is said a lot.

 

[Archangel]

Use "white" websites to free yourself from white ancestry brehs........

Any other alternatives?

 

[Meksico]

Has anyone actually changed their name?

And if so do you feel more liberated and free after? Genuinely wondering

 

[Fandroid]

I feel ya. And by the time we get old enough to gain consciousness of this, most of our elders have died; the ones who can provide knowledge and insight into our family history - great granddad/grandma etc

Dang I don't how some of you AAs be content with not knowing what your grandparents have knowledge of.

 

[InfinateOpulance]

Use "white" websites to free yourself from white ancestry brehs........

White people use this site too. Do you know of any other ones we should use instead?