--WebTV-Mail-4105-1263 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Knox, I would continue to belabor the point, as my LUTHER ancestor, and GG Grandfather was sentenced to the Tennessee State Penitentiary for 4 years. His crime was "harboring slaves." The year was1855, pre-civil war. I think that in 1875 freed black slaves had the option to seek their fortune by moving away from the opression of their masters. Mind you, I think several hordes of those formerly called slaves, did not consider themselves "enslaved", and they chose to remain faithful "servants" to, at that late date, the only family they ever knew. This is only a semi-eduated theory, but I gave you my best shot. Many religious people chose not to hold slaves (On my father's side), but on my mother's side it was a way of life and, apparently, there wasn't intermarriage, known mal-treatment, or gross prejudice. They were treated like family, so much as the accepted mores of the day allowed. So, I believe that is was largely semantics that the will delineated slaves from the "other" family members. Sincerely, Mike in CA. Michael David Brown Bakersfield Brigade --WebTV-Mail-4105-1263 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from smtpin-102-3.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.121) by storefull-237.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 16:09:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by smtpin-102-3.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix) id 2345922C; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 16:09:46 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.123]) by smtpin-102-3.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix) with ESMTP id B2209101; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 16:09:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from [email protected]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e9MMNJ824151; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 15:23:19 -0700 Resent-Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 15:23:19 -0700 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Sun Oct 22 15:23:19 2000 Message-ID: <[email protected]> From: "Knox Martin" <[email protected]> Old-To: <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 17:24:58 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Subject: [DC] Slaves listed on an 1875 will. Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/13665 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] I was looking over a will from South Carolina dated in 1875. There were 9 slaves listed along with their values. Any ideas as to why they would be listed on a will written 10 years after the end of the War Between the States? The will was a copy of the original, but I do not think the date was in error. Any ideas? Anybody ever seen this before? Thanks. Knox Martin ==== DanvilleCrossing Mailing List ==== Okay.... so I don't descend from anyone...... Now What ???? --WebTV-Mail-4105-1263--