This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SeB.2ACE/730.1.1 Message Board Post: I just can't get it off my mind - only 12 years old. I can't imagine her fears or her parents fears. I am embarrassed that my husband's family owned slaves. At the Giles County, TN site, if you type in Richard T. Johnston, you will find he was a slave trader and transactions of all of his sales. He was the brother to Elizabeth Payne Johnstone, married to John collins listed as buyer. Judy