Hi, Douglas, Please don't misunderstand me- my Scotch- Ancestors were indentured servants taking charge of a headwright possibly to avoid debtors prison and a free one way trip to Australia. One Wyly, a descendant of Scottish quakers in Ireland, contacted me from Australia last week from Adelaide. I feel slavery was wrong anywhere in the world at any time in history INCLUDING TODAY. wHERE ARE ALL THE bLEEDING HEARTS PROMOTING OUR MEDDLING ALL OVER THE WORLD EXCEPT FOR IN SEVERAL AFRICAN COUNTRIES TODAY ? They call it tribal and religious civil war. I thought that was what Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, and Bosnia was . What is the difference from a humanitarian standpoint. Read my post again about the Liberian National Choir which sant in our church here in Hewitt. I do not know of another country anywhere which has 51% of its kids under 18 who have seen their parents slaughterred by other tribes and 7 of the 11 or 12 young men were blinded by torture. We do nothing about it. Also, Freedom , Oklahoma in the Cherokee Strip near Canadian, Texas is made up of Cherokees with African roots., some intermarried. There were 3 Black Gentleman who assumed the Wyly name and with their own cash and wives and kids bought wagons and horses and furnishings and in 1865 they left the Wyly Wholesale Grocery at Peachtree and Pryor in Atlanta. Sherman did not burn it and it was open to 1890. The 36 wagons and livestock arrived in Stephenville, Texas in about 1868 and the 3 Black Wyly families went on to homestead land near Lubbock, Texas. Others live in Riverra Beach, Florida. They had been accepted by a Blue Peace City of Refuge , Nancy Ward's Echota or Old Chota or Etowah Tennessee and were accepted as blood brothers if they behaved. If not, they were dead. Andrew Jackson hated Etowa as an escape route from slavery and orderred Cols. Sevier and Gillespie to burn the town and fortifications and scatter the ashes. Old Chota, by some records, with its log and pole houses, ahd as many as 3000 runaway slaves, Indians, and Anglo traders and criminals . The Georgia Governor issued passports to travel in the Indian Nations and these records are available for family research. I have taught in Waco schools off & on for 20 years. Their ethnic makeup is about 40% Black, 35% Latin American (some with no Mexico roots) and the other includes Czechoslivakians, German , Norwegian, Oriental, and others.the last time I heard approximate count. Take care, Charles Wyly